On Leopard Rock. A life of adventures . Wilbur Smith. 2018. ISBN 9781499861280.\u00a0 You can get lost in a Wilbur Smith adventure.\u00a0 Full of swagger, adventure, lusty men and women, political intrigues and wildlife with the backdrop of Africa always there.\u00a0 I have read my way through the The Courteney Series (16), The Ballantyne Series (5), The Egyptian Series ( 6), Hector Cross (3),\u00a0 and his standalones (11). So it makes sense to read this, his autobiography.\u00a0An early editor told him write what you know. Over 50 years, Smith writes what he and\u00a0 his several generations of family have lived through and done growing up from early African colonization , the Boer War,\u00a0 WW1 and 2,\u00a0 Ian Smiths’s Rhodesia, Apartheid and Mandala, and now present day Africa.\u00a0 He does painstaking research on all his stories and weaves in great backstories and histories.\u00a0 He loves books and what they do for his readers.\u00a0 And he has been wildly successful , yet he still continues to write.\u00a0 This is very enjoyable and gives you even more background into his stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You can get lost in a Wilbur Smith adventure.\u00a0 Full of swagger, adventure, lusty men and women, political intrigues and wildlife with the backdrop of Africa always there.\u00a0 I have read my way through the The Courteney Series (16), The Ballantyne Series (5), The Egyptian Series ( 6), Hector Cross (3),\u00a0 and his standalones (11). So it makes sense to read this, his autobiography.\u00a0An early editor told him write what you know. Over 50 years, Smith writes what he and\u00a0 his several generations of family have lived through and done growing up from early African colonization , the Boer War,\u00a0 WW1 and 2,\u00a0 Ian Smiths’s Rhodesia, Apartheid and Mandala, and now present day Africa.\u00a0 He does painstaking research on all his stories and weaves in great backstories and histories.\u00a0 He loves books and what they do for his readers.\u00a0 And he has been wildly successful , yet he still continues to write.\u00a0 This is very enjoyable and gives you even more background into his stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3211,3210,3212,3206,3209,877,3207,3208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9766,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions\/9766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}