| King-of the Khyber Rifles. A Romance of Adventure Contributor(s): Mundy, Talbot (Author) |
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ISBN: 1533559015 ISBN-13: 9781533559012 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.09 lbs) 370 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: King of the Khyber Rifles is a novel by British writer Talbot Mundy. Captain Athelstan King is a secret agent for the British Raj at the beginning of the First World War. Heavily influenced both by Mundy's own unsuccessful career in India and by his interest in theosophy, it describes King's adventures among the (mostly Muslim) tribes of the north with the mystical woman adventuress, princess Yasmini and the Turkish mullah Muhammed Anim. Like Greenmantle by John Buchan, also first published in 1916, it deals with the possibility that Turkey might try to stir Muslims into a jihad against the British Empire. The Khyber Rifles was and is an actual regiment. |