Wilbur A. Smith Livres

Au cœur de l'Afrique australe, les Matabélé, vaincus par les Blancs, ne sont pas soumis pour autant. Neveu de leur dernier roi, Bazo fomente la rébellion de son peuple tout en feignant d'accepter de travailler pour l'envahisseur. Mais la révolte ne pourra être déclenchée qu'à une seule condition : le départ des soldats ennemis. Et le miracle tant espéré se produit: chargé d'aller mater les Boers sud-africains, le corps expéditionnaire anglais quitte le territoire de la future Rhodésie... Les deux premières prophéties se sont réalisées après l'invasion de sauterelles annoncée par l'oracle, une épidémie a décimé le bétail. L'évacuation inattendue des Anglais constitue à présent l'accomplissement de la troisième prophétie : le bain de sang peut commencer et emporter la famille Ballantyne tout entière.

Contains three stories - "When the Lion Feeds", in which twins Sean and Garrick are driven apart, "The Dark of the Sun" in which white mercenaries are up against a ruthless enemy, and "Hungry As the Sea", where courage, obsession and danger are on board a ship bound for the polar regions.

South Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy.

It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold... 'The scope is magnificent and the epic scale breathtaking ... Wilbur Smith is one of thos benchmarks agains whom others are compared' - The Times 'Meticulous research supports constant excitement in a fast-moving tale' - Washington Post

'Centaine screamed and drove the point of her stave down into the jaws with all her strength. She felt the sharpened end bite into the soft pink mucous membrane in the back of its throat, saw the spurt of scarlet blood, and then the lion locked its jaws on the stave and with a toss of its flying mane ripped it out of her hands and sent it windmilling out and down to hit the earth below.' The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun and extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she and Michael Courtney had shared - and sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster and adventure she must first brave all the combined terrors of war, shipwreck, thirst, fever and the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul...

Bibliographic Details WHEN THE LION FEEDS, THE DIAMOND HUNTERS, ... William Heinemann, London Publication 1976 Hard Cover Book Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good in PVC Sleeve.