Wilbur Smith started writing in his spare time, while he was working with the Inland Revenue Service. Smith tried his hands at various jobs like a gold mine, fishing boats, whaling ship, rubber factory and finally his own sheet metal establishment. Wilbur Smith attended Michaelhouse for high school, and Rhodes University to get his Bachelor's Degree in Commerce in 1954. Smith's father was a metal worker who Smith described as a 'tough man'. Since childhood, Smith thought he never fitted in with the other students and constantly felt out of place. Wilbur Smith was named after the famous aviator Wilbur Wright. He was born on January 9, 1933, in Zambia, a country betwixt South, Central and East Africa. Smith is a household name among contemporary novelists. A legend shattered by greed.Wilbur Addison Smith was a British-African novelist who wrote more than 50 novels in his lifetime. River God, the first in Wilbur Smith's blockbusting Egyptian Novels, is a thrilling adventure set amid the mysteries of ancient Egypt.Ancient Egypt.

a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time. Two archaeologists find themselves in a desperate race for ancient treasure in Wilbur Smith's fascinating tale of Egypt, The Seventh Scroll.A fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural.Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural.Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. Wilbur Smith returns with the final part of his thrilling Egyptian series. Taita, a freed slave and the Pharaoh’s closest advisor, must create a master plan to crush the kingdom’s historic enemy and return Egypt to its former glory. Wilbur Smith is a master at the helm of one of the greatest stories of all time.On the banks of the Nile, a hero will riseEgypt is under threat. A novel of Ancient Egypt from the bestselling author of River God.

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