The Lion of Petra de Talbot Mundy

The Lion of Petra

Talbot Mundy

Talbot Mundy was born William Lancaster Gribbon in London. He was in a German circus, and was a relief worker and journalist in India. He spent time in Africa as an ivory poacher, served time on a road gang, and became a town clerk. Deported after an adulterous affair, he married to his paramour and moved to the US to make a living as a writer. His "King of the Khyber Rifles" made his reputation and saw two film adaptations, and his work influenced writers such as H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

"The Lion of Petra" is one of a series featuring Major James Schuyler Grim. The Lion is Ali Higg, a Bedouin nomad who has set up shop in the inaccessible valley of Petra, from which he raids Palestine. Having bested Higg and forced him to post bond of fifty thousand pounds as a promise of good behavior, "Jimgrim" must now help Higg if he wants him to hold to the agreement. He must take his force of twenty men and somehow subdue Higg's rival, Hassan Saoud, who calls himself the Avenger and commands an army of eight hundred. . . .

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45^.64 lei 3-5 săpt.

45^.64 lei 3-5 săpt.

47^.45 lei 3-5 săpt.

57^.72 lei 3-5 săpt.

61^.31 lei 3-5 săpt.

AEGYPAN –

75^.90 lei 6-8 săpt.

Alpha Editions – 9 sep 2017

81^.85 lei 6-8 săpt.

Alpha Editions – 15 mar 2023

99^.73 lei 6-8 săpt.

Book Jungle – 30 iun 2009

121^.10 lei 6-8 săpt.

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 oct 2012

179^.94 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

286^.88 lei 6-8 săpt.

TREDITION CLASSICS – 30 noi 2012

286^.88 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

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.