| King--Of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy, Fiction, Historical, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Mundy, Talbot (Author) |
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ISBN: 1587159333 ISBN-13: 9781587159336 Publisher: Borgo Press OUR PRICE: $16.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: During the British Raj, the Khyber Pass was the witness to the struggles of wild, untamed people, conquerors, traders and adventurers. This is the tale of one of those adventurers, Athelstan King, Anglo-Indian captain of the Khyber Rifles. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.82 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the British Raj, the Khyber Pass was the witness to the struggles of wild, untamed people, conquerors, traders and adventurers.This is the tale of one of those adventurers, Athelstan King, Anglo-Indian captain of the Khyber Rifles. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mundy, Talbot: - "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." |