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Talbot Mundy

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High adventure on the roof of the world At the age of sixteen British author Talbot Mundy (William Lancaster Gribbon) ran away from home and travelled extensively through India, Africa, the Middle East and the Orient-an experience that stood him in good stead as he later crafted his bestselling novels. During this time he made his living as a petty criminal and confidence trickster. By the time he was twenty nine he had changed his name to Talbot Mundy, was living in the United States of America and had embarked on a writing career. He was well known as an author of novels with recurring characters and among his best kn… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78282-186-1
  • EAN: 9781782821861
  • Produktnummer: 15776399
  • Verlag: Leonaur
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 724 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D4.5 cm 1'097 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 1097

Über den Autor


Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon, 1879 - 1940) was an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines. During Mundy's career his work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. His work has been cited as an influence on a variety of later science-fiction and fantasy writers and he has been the subject of two biographies.

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