On Leopard Rock

A Life of Adventures

Wilbur Smith

 

  • Zaffre
  • London
  • 2018
  • English
  • Paperback
  • 351 pages

Synopsis

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 school days 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.

Review

Honest and intimate, Smith’s memoir tells of an extraordinary life of writing. - Publishers Weekly

Author

Wilbur Addison Smith is a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.