Rung Ho! - Mundy, Talbot
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A tale of adventure in British India during the rebellion of 1857, the first novel by a premier author of adventure fiction in the early 20th century. Often compared to his more famous semi-contemporaries, Kipling and Haggard, Mundy took a more favorable stand regarding colonialized peoples, and this is reflected in his work.

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A tale of adventure in British India during the rebellion of 1857, the first novel by a premier author of adventure fiction in the early 20th century. Often compared to his more famous semi-contemporaries, Kipling and Haggard, Mundy took a more favorable stand regarding colonialized peoples, and this is reflected in his work.
Autorenporträt
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.