for the salt he had eaten

About This Book

For the Salt He Had Eaten is an adventure story by Talbot Mundy (1879–1940), set in British India. The title refers to the code of loyalty and obligation that binds a man to the service of those who have given him sustenance — a theme Mundy explored repeatedly in his fiction about the borderlands between Western imperialism and Eastern honor. Mundy, born William Lancaster Gribbon in England, lived in India for years and brought an outsider's fascination with Eastern cultures to his prolific output of adventure fiction.

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