Wilbur Smith- When The Lion Feeds

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The lust of the hunter makes a man's blood sing. Devoid of conscious cruelty, it is a violent expression of love - a fierce possessing love, a devouring, worshipping love.

Sean Courtney was a man as big and bold as Africa itself. With his brother Garrick, he had grown up beneath the shadow of Cetewayo and the hungry spears of the Zulu impis. They were two very different people, bound by ties of blood and love, who had grown to manhood with the smell of death in their nostrils. But the onrush of the Zulus was to bring their world to an end, thrusting them headlong into history ...on the bloody sand of Isandhlwana and the heroic barricades of Rorke's Drift, in the fever of the gold rush and the perils of the jungle.

Still the lure of the wilderness and the white ivory would remain-the primaeval desire of the hunter, strong enough to make a man challenge all the fates and make a dream come true.

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