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Author : Talbot Mundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788381486927
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The Thunder Dragon Gate written by Talbot Mundy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Talbot Mundy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782821878
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Lobsang Pun Novels written by Talbot Mundy and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High adventure on the roof of the world At the age of sixteen British author Talbot Mundy (William Lancaster Gribbon) ran away from home and travelled extensively through India, Africa, the Middle East and the Orient-an experience that stood him in good stead as he later crafted his bestselling novels. During this time he made his living as a petty criminal and confidence trickster. By the time he was twenty nine he had changed his name to Talbot Mundy, was living in the United States of America and had embarked on a writing career. He was well known as an author of novels with recurring characters and among his best known creations are Tros of Samothrace, Jimgrim and the principal character of the two novels in this Leonaur two-in-one edition-Lobsang Pun. 'The Most Reverend Lobsang Pun, ' known to all as 'Old Ugly Faces, ' is a mystical monk of venerable age, who lives in Tibet, a magical land of forbidden places and secret mountain fastnesses. 'The Thunder Dragon's Gate, ' the first novel here, is a high-spirited tale of heroic adventure featuring Tom Grayne and an audience pleasing fantastical creature or two for good measure. In 'Old Ugly Face, ' also featuring Tom Grayne, the Dalai Lama has died and the traditional search to find the new incarnation has begun, but Lobsang Pun intends to influence events in the interests of cosmic balance and world sanity. These high ideals are, of course, wrapped up in an absorbing story of love, jealousy, international intrigue, treachery, adversity and daring-do. This is an excellent opportunity for collectors to possess both Lobsang Pun novels in one substantial special edition. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.
Author : Brian Taves
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648442X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure written by Brian Taves and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one of the pioneers of the fantasy and adventure genre. Less celebrated than his contemporaries Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Conrad, Mundy was no less gifted when it came to the literary portrayal of faraway lands. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy. At the age of sixteen, Mundy left his native England to begin his life of adventure--a journey that took him from India to the Middle East to Tibet and finally to America, which became his adopted home. The American spirit of adventure matched Mundy's own, and it was here that he found a true audience for his work. This book explores Mundy's oeuvre--much of it set in exotic locales through which he himself had traveled--and considers both his novels and his lesser known writing, as well as his film and radio work. Books such as Rung Ho!, King-of the Khyber Rifles, Caves of Terror, Purple Pirate and Tros of Samothrace are discussed and placed within the framework of Mundy's life and philosophy. The final chapter evaluates the enduring value of his writings. Appendices include a comprehensive list of Mundy's works and a chronological listing by their original publication dates.
Author : Talbot Mundy
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560542
Total Pages : 9331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Talbot Mundy (Illustrated) written by Talbot Mundy and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 9331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: www.delphiclassics.com
Author : Vivian Bi
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1925736334
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (257 download)
Download or read book Dragon's Gate written by Vivian Bi and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dragon's Gate is a superb book, a fascinating story written from the heart and woven into a complex cultural and historical tapestry - a modern classic in the making." - Robert Macklin, author of Dragon and Kangaroo Shi Ding is seventeen. In an attempt to impress a girl, he joins a local Red Guard unit and succeeds in having a nine-year-old boy arrested and a widowed professor of foreign literature driven to a shameful suicide. But when his father's death is also revealed as suicide, Shi Ding is expelled from the gang. He suspects there was more to the relationship between his father and the professor than friendship and he moves into her empty house. There he discovers a library of translations of forbidden Western classics. Himself a born storyteller, he is transfixed by the stories in these books by the likes of Dostoevsky, Stendhal, Hugo, Dickens, and Dumas … Set in China in the mid-60s, Dragon's Gate is about the power of storytelling. Within its overarching narrative, there are stories of little-known worlds: river logging in remote mountains, armed fighting between Red Guard factions, fortune telling on long train journeys, community life in the courtyards of Beijing hutong. Memorable characters abound in this rich and varied tale - characters like Sun Lanfen, the nosy, tough but decent residential compound leader; the blind singer who was struck dumb when he had to sing songs set to Chairman Mao's quotations; and the Buffalo Boy who was reputed to have fathered a hundred children in a Tibetan village. "The unique interweaving of fascinating tales set in exotic places with familiar and much loved western classics makes this book a page turner from beginning to end." - Jane Sydenham-Kwiet, German teacher and translator
Author : Michael J Wormald
Publisher : Michael J Wormald Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1980271674
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Call of the Thunder Dragon written by Michael J Wormald and published by Michael J Wormald Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast action and adventure, exploring forgotten corners of World War II History, also in this book is a spiritual journey set on the eve of World War 2. A series set to make Falstaff Wild infamous! Newly revised and expanded, full of insightful notes and facts. Japanese spies, beautiful women and assassins are after Falstaff Wild as he blazes across the skies of Asia! Falstaff can only respond with deadly force. Leaving dear old England Falstaff Wild becomes a rogue pilot trapped behind lines in China, but he is not alone, - finding a beautiful temptress he is soon occupied with a new mission. Falstaff the Incorrigible, mercenary pilot, and scoundrel with an evil temper. It is the eve of War in Europe, but Falstaff has unfinished business with a princess, the Japanese Army and loot still to find in the east. His eye for the ladies and the chance for a quick buck have got him trouble again.
Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0941028763
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Author : Various
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Talbot Mundy Biblio written by Various and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bibliography of the works of the author Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) compiled and edited by Bradford M. Day. Talbot Mundy was born in London in 1879. He served nearly ten years, beginning in 1900, as a government official in Africa and India. While in India, he wandered all over the sub-continent on horseback, and even into Tibet. Fascinated by Eastern occult lore, Mundy absorbed all he could learn of the Indian beliefs. Government service next brought him to Africa where his interest in folk tales on magic continued. Mundy also visited Australia, and Mexico as far south as Yucatan. He first arrived in the United States in 1911, and liked the country so much that he decided to stay and become a citizen. Mundy quickly turned his energies to writing, and an article, "Pig Sticking in India," was accepted and published in the April 1911 issue of Adventure Magazine. More articles soon followed. For years thereafter, Adventure had short stories, novelettes, novels, and serials by this master teller of tales in most of the issues that were printed.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradford M. Day
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1592242049
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Materials Toward a Bibliography of the Works of Talbot Mundy written by Bradford M. Day and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preliminary bibliography, notes, essays, and story lists on the novels and short works of Talbot Mundy.
Author : Donald A. Mackenzie
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs written by Donald A. Mackenzie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs" by Donald A. Mackenzie. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Michael J Wormald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993325625
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Call of the Thunder Dragon written by Michael J Wormald and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800712
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Stories to Awaken the World written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women - merchants and artisans, prostitutes and courtesans, matchmakers and fortune-tellers, monks and nuns, thieves and imposters - the stories provide a vivid panorama of the bustling world of late imperial China. The longest volume in the Sanyan trilogy, Stories to Awaken the World is presented in full here, including sexually explicit elements often omitted from Chinese editions. Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang have provided a rare treat for English readers: an unparalleled view of the art of traditional Chinese short fiction. As with the first two collections in the trilogy, Stories Old and New and Stories to Caution the World, their excellent renditions of the forty stories in this collection are eminently readable, accurate, and lively. They have included all of the poetry that is scattered throughout the stories, as well as Feng Menglong's interlinear and marginal comments, which convey the values shared among the Chinese cultural elite, point out what original readers of the collection were being asked to appreciate in the writer's art, and reveal Feng's moral engagement with the social problems of his day. The Yangs's translations rank among the very finest English versions of Chinese fiction from any period. For other titles in the collection go to http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/ming.html
Author : Romio Shrestha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (876 download)
Download or read book In Search of the Thunder Dragon written by Romio Shrestha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author : Steven Liu
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
ISBN 13 : 9781585428434
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Dragon Gate written by Steven Liu and published by TarcherPerigee. This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From simple breathing exercises that make you feel healthier and more alive to advanced sexual yoga, The Secrets of Dragon Gate is the key to your unique path to health, wealth, and spiritual fulfillment. The Dragon Gate School is known for its singular combination of sexual yoga and dream yoga practices; mystical divination methods for choosing a wise and fruitful path; Chi-gung and martial arts practices for health and longevity; and profound philosophy, based on the I Ching (Book of Changes) and the five elements, that provides a deep insight into the nature of reality. Incorporate the mysterious and ancient wisdom of the Dragon Gate School of Taoism into your daily life, and find answers to the question of how to live a long, prosperous, and happy life.
Author : Kaiguo Chen
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Opening the Dragon Gate written by Kaiguo Chen and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening the Dragon Gate is the authorized biography of Wang Liping (1949- ), a modern Taoist wizard. It is the true story of how a young boy becomes heir to a tradition of esoteric knowledge and practice accumulated and refined over eleven centuries. As told to his students Chen Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao, the story tells of Liping's arduous fifteen-year apprenticeship with the masters, during which time he enters an ancient realm and learns the true source of health, healing, and long life. A compelling story of the making of a modern wizard, this book reveals never-before-available information about Taoist principles and procedures, people and places. Wang Liping imparts his knowledge on esoteric exercises, alchemical elixirs, mysteries of Man and Nature, and the secrets of inner transformation, making this a mystical and extraordinary book.
Author : Peter Berresford Ellis
Publisher : Donald M. Grant Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Last Adventurer written by Peter Berresford Ellis and published by Donald M. Grant Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
