The Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy 1879-1940

Ellis, Peter Berresford

ISBN 10: 0937986704 / ISBN 13: 9780937986707

Published by West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc, 1984

About this Item

Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Quarto. 279 pages. Frontispiece a b&w photographic portrait of Mundy; 17 pages of b&w photographs at the end of the text. Very Good in Fair jacket which has obvious wear to its edges and corners. Spine ends chipped; small losses to the top corners; both faces rubbed and faded. Several closed tears and some creasing along the top of the back; flaps tanned at the edges.

Seller Inventory # 2396

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Adventurer: The Life of Talbot Mundy 1879-1940
• Publisher: West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937986704
• ISBN 13: 9780937986707
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Talbot Mundy's life is far from being a dull literary biography. Accounts of his adventures are often a record of "lordly lies". Born William Lancaster Gribbon, he was the stereotype of the Victorian English rake. His travels and exploits -- with frequent confrontations with the law -- took him all over the world under a variety of aliases. The day after he landed in New York in 1909 Mundy was enticed into a poker game, robbed and beaten. During his recovery, he tried his hand at writing and soon became very popular. He drew heavily upon his adventures in India, the Near East and Africa as background for his fiction.