"Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but……" — Wilbur Smith
"Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy."
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Wilbur Smith
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