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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Macmillan, St. Martin's Paperbacks, Books On Tape
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780333902165
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First sentence
“Four years of travel in the roadless wilderness had battered the wagons.”
About Wilbur Smith · 1933–2021
Wilbur Addison Smith was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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