Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Andrew Smith (author) Andrew Smith (author) Andrew Smith (born 10 February 1961) is a U.S. born British author. He lives in London. Smith is the author of "Totally Wired: on the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle", which tells the story of Josh Harris's role in the birth of the World Wide Web and subsequent dotcom bubble in New York at the end of the 1990s. Smith also wrote "Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth", in which he travels across America in search of the nine surviving U.S. astronauts who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972. Smith