The Purple Plain the three men struggle to survive in the hostile environment, the self-destructive Bill finally realises that he can depend on support from others and that he may have someone to live for. Blore, however, abandons them to attempt to return to the crash site and commits suicide. "The Purple Plain" is regarded generally as historically accurate with good production values and attention to detail, and depicts the native Burmese in a respectful manner. The film is based on the 1947 novel "The Purple Plain" by H. E. Bates, one of three novels he wrote after his travels to Burma and
When the Lion Feeds enough ivory to pay for a farm, as he and Katrina had talked about doing. Before publishing "The Lion Feeds", Smith was working as an accountant and had already written a novel, "The Gods First Make Mad", for which he had been unable to find a publisher. After his first marriage failed, he tried again with a different story: I wrote about my own father and my darling mother. I wove into the story chunks of early African history. I wrote about black people and white. I wrote about hunting and gold mining and carousing and women. I wrote about