Smith, Wilbur. THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS - William Heinemann 1984

The book is a first edition, later printing as evidenced by being specifically stated on the copyright page.

The book has burgundy boards and gold lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean slightly tanned, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight and square.

The very good wrapper is complete but unpriced. There is light wear to the jacket especially on the back

Overall a fine copy of a novel by a popular author.

The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publishers stamps.

Wilbur Smith was born on January 9, 1933 in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia. At the age of eighteen months baby Wilbur was struck down by cerebral malaria, delirious for ten days, and doctors warned that he could be brain-damaged if he survived.<p>Survive he most certainly did, and as he grew up he began to share his mother’s interest in novels. Her tastes were wide-ranging but they included adventure novels, which the young Wilbur devoured. In conjunction with the magnificent environment in which he was growing up, these forays into the world of the imagination made him intensely aware of his surroundings: the wildlife, the vast open spaces, the freedom to roam the country – and the political tensions too.<p>Smith’s desire to write first showed itself when he was a young man with his heart set on becoming a journalist so that he could chronicle the rapidly changing social situations of southern Africa. His stern, Victorian father, who never read a book in his life, had other ideas, however. ‘Don’t be a bloody fool,’ he said. ‘You’ll starve to death. Get a real job.’

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He is the son of Ballantynes, the powerful dynasty that had conquered a continent. Today, amid the violent conflicts of emerging Africa, Craig Mellow confronts a bloody colonial past . . . and a perilously uncertain future

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