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“THREE HORSEMEN rode out from the edge of the forest with a restrained eagerness that not even weary weeks of searching could dull. ~ They reined in, stirrup to stirrup, and looked down into another shallow valley. Each stalk of the dry winter grass bore a fluffy seedhead of a lovely pale rose colour, and the light breeze stirred them and made them dance, so that the herd of sable antelope in the gut of the valley seemed to float belly-deep in a bank of swirling pink mist. ~ There was a single herd bull. He stood almost fourteen hands tall at the withers. His satiny back and shoulders were black as a panther’s, but his belly and the intricate designs of his face-mask were the starting iridescent white of mother-of-pearl. His great ridged horns, curved like Saladin’s scimitar, swept back to touch his croup, and his back was proudly arched as that of a blood Arabian stallion. Long ago hunted to extinction in his former southern ranges, this noblest of all the antelopes of Africa had come to symbolise for Ralph Ballantyne this wild and beautiful new land between the Limpopo and the wide green Zambezi rivers. ~ The great black bull stared arrogantly at the horsemen on the ridge above him, then snorted and tossed his warlike head. Thick dark mane flying, sharp hooves clattering over the stony ground, he led his chocolate-coloured brood cows at a gallop up and over the far ridge, leaving the watching men mute at their grandeur and beauty...”. ~ *I posted these pics on my Shane Ross Photography + RAW Worldwide Facebook page recently, including the finer details of the Sable’s physical and behavioural characteristics. The next day, just before I intended posting these photos on Insta, I picked up one of my old @thewilbursmith @thepowerofadventure novels, “The Angels Weep” - one of the best in the Ballantyne Series, a tale of tribal and early settler battles in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). On the very first page was this ☝️ That’s no cognitive bias, it’s too perfect. It’s just plain old irony 😅 id only read it again 6 months ago, but i don’t remember committing this powerful opening scene to memory... ~ #wilbursmith #wilbursmithauthor #sable #sableantelope #antelope (at Chobe National Park, Botswana) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBb1oFSF4Pf/?igshid=sr3qqlb15i5d

[tukkbook]

Wilbur Addison Smith is a British novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel When the Lion Feeds. . . . #bookmark #wilbursmithfan #book #wilbursmithwarcry #bookobsessed #booking #bookshelf #wilbursmithbook #bookphotography #wilbursmithlaw #wılbursmıth #wilbursmithrivergod #books #bookish #bookstagram #wilbursmithaddicted #wilbursmithauthor #wilbursmiths #bookaholic #wilbursmith #wilbursmithadventurewritingprize #wilbursmithimagery #wilbursmithwithtomcain #wilbursmithbooks #bookworm #tukkbook #bookshop #bookcommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Sr7CYA_55/?igshid=13h9xlec03ozy

[fabricofme]

Bookmail from a Goidreads win today!! Never tried this au th hor. Excited to give him a try!! #simonandschuster #wilbursmithauthor #kingofkings https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVgbsqh7b5Z6xEu0wsV3-eJxg6FRatiT0_xVI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1aohvkwqt6ys4