"Talbot Mundy and the Yasmini series get better as they go along. This fifth in the series looks back to Yasmini's manipulative origins, previewing the delightful and formidable adversary she would become. But the novel also demonstrates her loyalty and friendship--to the right people. Otherwise, it's India as you imagined it under the British...More
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Talbot Mundy was born as William Lancaster Gribbon; he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. He was a British pulp writer of oriental adventures. Best known as the author of King—of the Khyber Rifles and the Jimgrim series. His work was often compared with that of his more commercially successful contemporaries, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, although unlike their work his adopted an anti-colonialist stance and expressed a positive interest in Asian religion and philosophy. —(from Wikipedia)
Book Summary
"Talbot Mundy and the Yasmini series get better as they go along. This fifth in the series looks back to Yasmini's manipulative origins, previewing the delightful and formidable adversary she would become. But the novel also demonstrates her loyalty and friendship--to the right people. Otherwise, it's India as you imagined it under the British Raj. Or at least the Raj as it should have been."
- Paul CorneliusJan
Talbot Mundy
