"It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man."
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Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 β 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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