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The Burning Shore

Wilbur Smith

  • 435 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1985
  • 3 editions
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1 About this book

The Burning Shore is a novel by Wilbur Smith set during and after World War I.

Smith called the book his "Road to Damascus" moment because it was the first time he used a female as a major character. It is one of the Courtney Novels.

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  • South African fiction

2 About Wilbur Smith

1933–2021

Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer. He went on to write three long chronicles of the South African experience, which became best-sellers.

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