When the Lion feeds by author Wilbur Smith

Book : When the Lions feeds

Author: Wilbur Smith

Publisher : Pan

ISBN: 0 330 20139 5

Wilbur Smith is a very important author of my growing up. I have read all his books. And most of his books are still the pride of my library. Wilbur Smith has incorporated  a large part of the history of Africa in his writings. He has written about the diamond mines of Kimberley, the dutch and bitish war, the boer war, the various tribes of Africa, especially the Masai and Zulus, the gold rush, the hunting, piracy. In fact it was Wilbur Smith who painted a picture of Africa, and made me see the rugged, beautiful passionate Africa with its beautiful dark skinned people.

In “When the Lion Feeds” Wilbur Smith introduces us to the hero of his many novels series, Sean Courtney. Sean is as big and bold and dangerous as Africa itself. His farming days are halted the Zulu uprising. The daily threat of Zulu spears throws Sean into a war not of his making. Sean flings himself wholeheartedly into a life of passion and violence. He gets thrown into the maelstrom of the massacare at Isandhlwana, the heroism of Rorkes drift, the madness and mind boggling excitement of the Gold rush, the perils of the African jungle.

Amongst all this Sean is desired by his brothers wife, hungered after by the voluptuous  Candy , loved by the impish red haired Katrina.

Sean throws in all his efforts to challenge fate, make his dreams come true and build an empire in the land of the red soil, Africa.