TALBOT MUNDY

BIBLIO


MATERIALS TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE WORKS
OF
TALBOT MUNDY


Edited by BRADFORD M. DAY





A Bit of His Life


Talbot Mundy was born in London on April 23, 1879. He was educated at
Rugby, and 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. Eastern occult lore
first attracted, then fascinated, his active and unorthodox mind. Mundy
absorbed all he could learn of the Indian beliefs.

Government service next brought him to Africa where he studied
first-hand the nature magic of many of the tribes and cultures of East
Africa. His quest for more information on this subject impelled him to