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
Wilbur Woo Wilbur Woo Wilbur Woo (December 12, 1915 - 12 November, 2012) was a Chinese-born American businessman, previous CACA national president, former vice-chairman of Cathay Bank and seen as a leader in the Los Angeles' Chinese community. Woo first stepped into America when he was just 5 years old with his family to escape China but later returned to his home country. In 1940, Woo returned to Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. He was a Republican while his son, Michael Woo, is a Democrat who, in 1985, became the first Asian American elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Woo