- Courtney family (Fictitious characters), Fiction, Gold mines and mining, Courtney family (fictitious characters), fiction
The book is all about the Courtney family based in South Africa, before the boa war.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 572
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Paperbacks, Books On Tape, Macmillan U.K.
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9785557087360
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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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