The Habitation of the Blessed Audiobook (Free)

This is actually the story of a location that never was: the kingdom of Prester John, the utopia defined by an anonymous, twelfth-century document which captured the imagination from the medieval world and drove hundreds of lost souls to seek out its secrets, inspiring explorers, missionaries, and kings for years and years. But what if it were all true? Imagine if there was such a place, and an unhealthy, damaged priest once stumbled past its edges, discovering, not a Christian paradise, but a nation where everything about The Habitation of the Blessed is possible, immortality is quickly had, and the Western world can be nothing but a dim and distant dream? Brother Hiob of Luzerne, on missionary work in the Himalayan wilderness within the eve of the eighteenth century, discovers a village guarding a miraculous tree whose branches sprout books rather than fruit. These unusual books chronicle the history from the kingdom of Prester John, and Hiob turns into obsessed with the stories they tell. The Habitation of the Blessed recounts the fragmented narratives discovered within these living quantities, revealing the life span of a priest named John, and his rise to power within this nation of impossible richness. John’s story weaves alongside the confessions of his wife Hagia, a blemmye – a headless creature who transported her face on her chest – as well as the sensitive, jeweled nursery tales of Imtithal, nanny towards the royal family.