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
Patsy Adam-Smith Patsy Adam-Smith Patricia Jean Adam-Smith (31 May 1924 – 20 September 2001), born in Melbourne, though spent her early years in Nowingi, was an Australian author, historian and servicewoman. She was a prolific writer on a range of subjects covering history, folklore and the preservation of national traditions", and wrote a two-part autobiography. Her other notable works include "The Anzacs" (1978), "Australian Women at War" (1984) and "Prisoners of War" (1992). Born "illegitimately", Patricia Jean Smith was adopted by railway workers, her mother a station-mistress and her father a fettler. She lived in a number of small Victorian country towns