On Leopard Rock
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On Leopard Rock

An Adventure in Books

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

On Leopard Rock

An Adventure in Books

About this book

The first ever memoirfrom the Number One global bestselling adventure author Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not get shot, but lucky enough to grow up among the heroes who had served in them and learn from their example. I have lucked into things continuously. I have done things which have seemed appalling at the time, disastrous even, but out of them have come another story or a deeper knowledge of human character and the ability to express myself better on paper, write books which people enjoy reading. Along the way, I have lived a life that I could never have imagined. I have been privileged to meet people from all corners of the globe, I have been wherever my heart has desired and in the process my books have taken readers to many, many places. I always say I've started wars, I've burned down cities, and I've killed hundreds of thousands of people - but only in my imagination! From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal schooldays to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of his life that have been the raw material for his fiction. Always candid, sometimes hilarious, and never less than thrillingly entertaining, On Leopard Rock is testament to a writer whose life is as rich and eventful as his novels are compellingly unputdownable.

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Information

Publisher
Zaffre
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781499861242
eBook ISBN
9781499861280

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Wilbur Smith
  3. About the Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Chapter 1. Twilight
  9. Chapter 2. Lions in the Night
  10. Chapter 3. This Child’s Life
  11. Chapter 4. This Boy’s Life
  12. Chapter 5. This Student’s Life
  13. Chapter 6. This Underworld Life
  14. Chapter 7. The Law is an Ass
  15. Chapter 8. This Seafaring Life
  16. Chapter 9. This High-Flying Life
  17. Chapter 10. This Hollywood Life
  18. Chapter 11. This Hero’s Life
  19. Chapter 12. This Hunting Life
  20. Chapter 13. This African Life
  21. Chapter 14. This Desert Life
  22. Chapter 15. This American Life
  23. Chapter 16. This Diving Life
  24. Chapter 17. This Writing Life
  25. Appendix. The Monarch of the Ilungu
  26. Index
  27. Acknowledgements