TALBOT MUNDY

En 1920, el desierto está en pie de guerra y la única esperanza de las autoridades británicas es James Grim, un carismático oficial del servicio secreto célebre por hacer las cosas a su manera. El aventurero reúne a un equipo peculiar: un falso derviche que se hace pasar por médico, un sij, una joven beduina aficionada a los venenos, cuatro guardias de lealtad fluctuante, un espía árabe a sueldo de todos los bandos y el famoso Alí Babá con su banda de ladrones.

Novela histórica que narra, de manera amena, cómo fue el asesinato del emperador Cómodo en el año 192. Roma está en su cenit cuando llega al poder Cómodo. Se cree un dios y baja con frecuencia a la

The gut of the pass rose toward Zeitoon at a sharp incline--a ramp of slippery wet clay, half a mile long, reaching across from buttress to buttress of the impregnable hills. It was more than a ridden mule could do to keep its feet on the slope, and we had to dismount. It was almost as much as we ourselves could do to make progress with the aid of sticks, and we knew at last what Kagig had meant by his boast that nothing on wheels could approach his mountain home. The poor wretches who had struggled so far with us simply gave up hope and sat down, proposing to die there.

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879-1940) was an English writer who wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure (1916), which is set in India under British Occupation. He wrote many other books and stories, including Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) and a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar. In 1919, Mundy serialized On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, a novel about treasure hunting and ivory poaching in East Africa, which Mundy always claimed was the most autobiographical of his novels. His other works include Rung Ho! (1914), The Winds of the World (1915), The Ivory Trail (1919), Told in the East (1920), The Eye of Zeitoon (1920), The Guns of the Gods (1921), The Bubble Reputation (1923), Caves of Terror (1922), and The Lion of Petra (1922).

The why and wherefore of my privilege to write a true account of the Princess Yasminis early youth is a story in itself too long to tell here; but it came about through no peculiar wisdom. I fell in a sort of way in love with her, and that led to opportunity.

"Nobody knows how old Petra is, but it was a thriving city when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, and for a full five thousand years it has had but that one entrance, through a gorge that narrows finally until only one loaded camel at a time can pass. Army after army down the centuries have tried to storm the place, and failed, so that even the invincible Alexander and the Romans had to fall back on the arts of friendship to obtain the key. We, the last invaders, came as friends, if only Grim could persuade the tyrant to believe it...

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879-1940) was an English writer who wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure (1916), which is set in India under British Occupation. He wrote many other books and stories, including Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) and a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar. In 1919, Mundy serialized On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, a novel about treasure hunting and ivory poaching in East Africa, which Mundy always claimed was the most autobiographical of his novels. His other works include Rung Ho! (1914), The Winds of the World (1915), The Ivory Trail (1919), Told in the East (1920), The Eye of Zeitoon (1920), The Guns of the Gods (1921), The Bubble Reputation (1923), Caves of Terror (1922), and The Lion of Petra (1922).

Talbot Mundys "Die neun Unbekannten" aus dem Jahr 1923 - in dieser Ausgabe erstmals in deutscher Sprache veroffentlicht -schickt den Leser auf eine atemberaubende Reise durch verborgene Weisheiten und uralte Mysterien. Bei den Neun Unbekannten handelt es sich um einen Geheimbund, der angeblich um 270 v. Chr. vom maurischen Kaiser Ashoka gegrundet wurde. Sein Reich war durch den Einsatz katastrophaler Technologien, welche ganze Zivilisationen zerstoren konnten, gefallen. Manche verknupfen diese Legende sogar mit der mystischen Herrschaft des Gottes Rama, dessen Reich auf ahnliche Weise unterging. Ashoka strebte danach dieses uralte, zerstorerische Wissen zu schutzen und dennoch zu bewahren. Er vertraute zu diesem Zweck neun Bucher mit unterschiedlicher Thematik neun unbekannten Mannern an.In dem Roman symbolisieren die neun Manner die Verkorperung des Guten. Sie stehen neun Kali-Anbetern gegenuber, die Verwirrung stiften und sich als die wahren Weisen ausgeben. Die Handlung dreht sich um die Gemeinschaft eines Priesters namens Pater Cyprian, der im Besitz geheimnisvoller Bucher ist, diese aber aus christlicher Frommigkeit vernichten will. Eine Reihe weiterer Charaktere sind aus unterschiedlichen Grunden ebenfalls an den Buchern und ihrem Inhalt interessiert.Das Konzept der Neun Unbekannten wurde von Louis Pauwels und Jacques Bergier in ihrem 1960 erschienenen Buch "Der Morgen der Magier" popular gemacht. Sie behaupteten, die Neun Unbekannten seien real und Papst Silvester II. - selbst ein Eingeweihter geheimen Wissens - habe sie personlich getroffen. Der franzosische Konsul in Kalkutta, Autor und umstrittene Indologe Louis Jacolliot beharrte im 19. Jahrhundert ebenfalls auf ihrer Existenz.Die Neun Unbekannten wurden zudem in der Widmung zu der ersten Ausgabe von Anton LaVeys Satanischer Bibel aus dem Jahr 1969 erwahnt.Dies ist nicht nur ein Buch; es ist eine Expedition ins Unbekannte!

Aventures en Indes britanniques, la magie des fakirs soppose a la loi surtout quand un lord officier adepte disparait. Meurtre ou enlevement ? La police et sa fille partent a sa poursuite mais les bandits locaux ne sont pas sans ressources.A lire pour tous les amoureux de cette epoque ou la magie, le courage et la mort baignaient les romans daventure.

Nine unknown men are tasked with preserving and protecting knowledge that would be dangerous for mankind if it were used by the wrong people. There are nine books of secret knowledge that must be guarded and kept from falling into the wrong hands.

Retour en Inde. T.Mundy nous entraîne dans la première partie du XXème siècle au fin fond de la jungle indienne coloniale. Moitié Indiana Jones, moitié Kipling, nous plongeons dans le mystère sur les

Dans une Inde à la Kipling, suivez Ommony, agent britannique démissionnaire. Il vous emmènera en des lieux secrets, par-delà le domaine des apparences dans un monde de puissances fabuleuses.

King of the Khyber Rifles may well be Mundys most famous work. Set in India and the regions beyond, it was successful enough so that two movies were adapted from its pages, although neither portrayed Athelstan King as Mundy intended him. And neither evoked the fantasy and mysticism that are so much a part of this book.Somewhere beyond India, on a quest for the remote and half-fabled Khinjan Caves, King meets a cast of characters that includes the Princess Yasmini, Ismail, Darya Khan, and various hakims, rangars, and mullahs. And deep in the unknown caverns lie "the sleepers", about whom a marvelous and fantastic tale is spun...

Hira Singh is the story of a regiment of Sikh cavalry who are captured in battle in Flanders in the early days of World War I. The book narrates the adventures faced by these troops as they escape from captivity and under the leadership of the hero of the story Ranjoor Singh, a Sikh officer, they try to make their way back to India under conditions of great difficulty.

Estimates of ease and affluence vary with the point of view. While his older brother lived, Monty had continued in his element, a cavalry officer, his combined income and pay ample for all that the Bombay side of India might require of an English gentleman. They say that a finer polo player, a steadier shot on foot at a tiger, or a bolder squadron leader never lived...

Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879-1940) was an English writer who wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. His most famous book is King of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure (1916), which is set in India under British Occupation. He wrote many other books and stories, including Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders (1918) and a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar. In 1919, Mundy serialized On the Trail of Tippoo Tib, a novel about treasure hunting and ivory poaching in East Africa, which Mundy always claimed was the most autobiographical of his novels. His other works include Rung Ho! (1914), The Winds of the World (1915), The Ivory Trail (1919), Told in the East (1920), The Eye of Zeitoon (1920), The Guns of the Gods (1921), The Bubble Reputation (1923), Caves of Terror (1922), and The Lion of Petra (1922).

This whole business is getting too confused for me, he grumbled, sitting down again. "You want to kill Commodus, as is reasonable. Marcia has ordered me to kill you, which is unreasonable Yet for the present she protects you. Why? She knows you are Commodus enemy. She seems anxious to save Commodus. Yet she encourages Pertinax, who doesnt want to be emperor; he only dallies with the thought because Marcia helps Cornificia to persuade him Isnt that a confusion for you? And now theres Bultius Livius. As I understand it, Marcia caught him spying on her. No woman in her senses would trust Livius; the man has snowbroth in his veins and slow fire in his head. Yet Marcia now heaps favors on him "

Nine unknown men are tasked with preserving and protecting knowledge that would be dangerous for mankind if it were used by the wrong people. There are nine books of secret knowledge that must be guarded and kept from falling into the wrong hands.