Legendary adventure writer Wilbur Smith, 88, dies at Cape Town home

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Legendary adventure writer Wilbur Smith, 88, dies at Cape Town home
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The adventure writer sold more than 140 million copies of his books, over a career spanning half a century.

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The adventure writer sold more than 140 million copies of his books worldwide in more than thirty languages, over a career spanning half a century. In the 49 novels Smith published, he featured the gold mines of SA, piracy on the Indian Ocean, buried treasure on tropical islands, conflict in Arabia and Khartoum, ancient Egypt, World War 2 Germany and Paris, India, the Americas and the Antarctic, encountering ruthless diamond and slave traders and big game hunters in the jungles and bush of the African wilderness.

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