Shout at the Devil was made into a movie with Lee Marvin. Fun/silly movie. The book is about Major PJ Pretorius if I remember correctly. A good book on Major Pretorius is Jungle Man. The book peters out near the end a bit. Pretorius was a hell-for-leather man. He sure pissed the Germans off.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Here they are Yukon, do your self a favor mate, check them out.
The Courtneys
When the lion feeds
The sound of thunder
A sparrow falls
Birds of prey
The courtneys of Africa
The burning shore
Power of the sword
Rage (good one)
A time to die
Golden fox (good as well)
The Ballantyne's(set in Rhodesia)
A flacon flies
Men of men
The angles weep
The leopard hunts in darkness
ALSO
The dark of the sun
Shout at the devil
Gold mine
The diamond hunters
The sunbird
Eagle in the sky (liked this one)
Cry wolf
Hungry as the sea
Wild Justise
Elephant Song
River god
The seventh scroll
Warlock
Blue Horizon

That's a grand collection you have there Bakes!

It seems I've missed out on Blue Horizon.

Gotta start searching or "hunting" for it.

I miss bad with titles, but I recognize most of those. He released a few more in the past 4 years or so. I believe he has someone writing with him, but still good stuff.

Read most of his books over the years. Enjoyed almost all of them. Don't think you can go wrong.

I have enjoyed his books for many years. I'm guessing 35 years. While a few have been made into movies, many more could have also.

Thank you Wilbur.

hi guys

i have al the wilbur smith books.
But start reading tony park books his also a great author.

luan

My favourite was Assegai. Heaps of hunting.

The Ancient Egyptian set had some great hunting scenes, too.

Had the pleasure of staying with Wilbur and the late Dee Smith at his now sold farm in the little Karoo. Shot a limping, old gemsbok on the farm, but must admit I did not do very good shooting.

They were both at our farewell to South Africa just after Parliament rose in 1986. They arrived at our Wynberg house just after the renowned Helen Suzman, longtime opposition MP, now dead. My wife said, "surely, you know each other," Wilbur's reply was that they didn't, adding to Helen, "my you're so short." He recovered quickly by saying, "but you cast a giant shadow!"

Of the three genuine authors about Africa, fiction and fact, I'd put Wilbur as today's good read; Stuart Cloete as the writer from the late 30s to the 60s. We met his now dead American wife, Tiny Cloete, in Cape Town at the same period. Stuart's Rags of Glory, and non-fiction The African Giant are spectacular as are many of his others. The third is, as noted above, H. Rider Haggard for earlier in the last century.

Regards, Tim