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    Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction...
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  • Wilbur Smith (1933–2021) was a South African novelist. Wilbur Smith may also refer to: Wilbur C. Smith (1884–1952), American football coach and university...
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  • directed by Peter R. Hunt. It was based on the 1970 novel Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith. Moore plays Rodney "Rod" Slater, general manager of a South African...
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  • Rhodesian writer Wilbur Smith. It introduces the Courtney family, whose adventures Smith would tell in many subsequent novels. In 2012, Smith said the novel...
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  • Zanzibar and German East Africa in 1913–1914, is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith which is very loosely inspired by real events (see the sinking of the...
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  • into approximately 40 languages." (2007) The Telegraph[dead link] on Wilbur Smith: "Translated into 26 languages, they have sold more than 80 million copies...
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  • novel by British-South African author Wilbur Smith, first published in 2001. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set in Ancient Egypt and follows the...
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  • River God (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    River God is a novel by author Wilbur Smith. It tells the story of the talented eunuch slave named Taita, his life in Egypt, the flight of Taita along...
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    Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers...
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  • Carsten. The film, which was directed by Jack Cardiff, is based on Wilbur Smith's 1965 novel, The Dark of the Sun. The story about a band of mercenaries...
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  • 1977 novel by Wilbur Smith. It is one of the Courtney Novels and is set during and after World War I. It was the most popular of Smith's novels in the...
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    and Let Die (1973). Moore then made Gold (1974), based on a novel by Wilbur Smith for producer Michael Klinger and director Peter R. Hunt. He was paid...
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    States.   In 2011, CDM acquired Wilbur Smith, a 1,000-employee transportation engineering firm, to form CDM Smith. CDM Smith later acquired the Ohio-based...
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    economy grew rapidly. In 1966, British transport consultants Freeman, Fox, Wilbur Smith & Associates were appointed to study the transport system of Hong Kong...
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  • The Ballantyne Novels (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    'original' series are four novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family, from the 1860s to...
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  • Birds of Prey is a 1997 novel by Wilbur Smith set in the late 17th century. The novel was the first in the third sequence of the Courtney series of novels...
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  • The Burning Shore (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    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...
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  • The Sunbird (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    by Wilbur Smith about an archeological dig. The novel depicts a search for a Phoenician city in modern Botswana. The novel was a favourite of Smith's, who...
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  • mother reading a novel where the lead had this name (A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith) and an electrical storm outside on the day she was born. Her grandmother...
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  • communication studies" Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver Wilbur Smith (1933–2021), South African novelist Wilbur Soot (born 1996), English...
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  • The Courtney Novels (category Novels by Wilbur Smith)
    are a series of twenty four novels published between 1964 and 2024 by Wilbur Smith. They chronicle the lives of the Courtney family, from the 1660s through...
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  • Cry (graphic novel), by Jim Butcher War Cry (novel), a 2017 novel by Wilbur Smith WarCry Network, a web portal centered on MMOGs The War Cry, the official...
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  • Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon Moby-Dick by Herman Melville River God by Wilbur Smith Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx...
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    Sinclair, SABC, 1986 A Zulu Christmas, 2020 Novels When the Lion Feeds, Wilbur Smith, 1964 The Covenant, James A. Michener, 1980 Zulu, Caryl Férey, Gallimard...
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  • by Wilbur Smith The Sound of Thunder by Wilbur Smith A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith...
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  • Time to Die is a 1989 novel by Wilbur Smith. Set in 1987, it is chronologically the last of the 13 Courtney Novels. Smith did not regard it strictly as...
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  • novel by Wilbur Smith and Tom Cain. It was the second Smith novel written with a co-writer. Black, Eleanor (24 October 2015). "Wilbur Smith at 82: "I've...
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    Storm Uechtritz. Her parents loved the name "Storm", used in one of Wilbur Smith's novels, and gave her this first name. Concerned she may be made fun...
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  • Pharaoh is a novel by author Wilbur Smith published in 2016. It is part of a series of novels by Smith set in Ancient Egypt and follows the fate of the...
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    JULY". The Crime Writers’ Association. Retrieved 2022-07-30. "Awards: Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing; McIlvanney Prize". Shelf Awareness. 2018-09-24. Archived...
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