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Zusatztext An entertaining read; Smith's life has been so eventful that his escapades keep you turning the pages Informationen zum Autor Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds , and has since published over fifty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. An international phenomenon, his readership built up over fifty-five years of writing, establishing him as one of the most successful and impressive brand authors in the world. The establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Wilbur Smith passed away peacefully at home in 2021 with his wife, Niso, by his side, leaving behind him a rich treasure trove of novels and stories that will delight readers for years to come. For all the latest information on Wilbur Smith's writing visit www.wilbursmithbooks.com or facebook.com/WilburSmith Klappentext Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, andnow he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writingnovels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and notget shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in themand learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I havedone things which have seemed appalling at the time, disastrous even, but outof them have come another story or a deeper knowledge of human character andthe ability to express myself better on paper, write books which people enjoy reading. Along the way, I havelived a life that I could never have imagined. I have been privileged to meetpeople from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desiredand in the process my books havetaken readers to many, many places. I always say I've started wars, I've burneddown cities, and I've killed hundreds of thousands of people - but only in myimagination! Frombeing attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, fromgetting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarioustunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death fromcrash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal school days to redemption throughwriting and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of hislife that have been the raw material for his fiction. Always candid, sometimeshilarious, and never less than thrillingly entertaining, On Leopard Rock is testament to a writer whose life is as rich andeventful as his novels are compellingly unputdownable. Zusammenfassung Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, disastrous even, but out of them has come another story or a deeper knowledge of human character and the ability to express myself better on paper and write books which people enjoy reading. Along the way, I have lived a life that I could never have imagined. I have been privileged to meet people from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desired and in the process my books have taken readers to many, many places. I always say I've s...
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A thundering good read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith`s books The Irish Times
