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Wilbur Smith
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten foo
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Wilbur Smith dreamed of adventurous and dangerous careers when he was young, like hunting big game or searching for gold. However, his experience at a harsh boarding school in South Africa, which was strict and unpleasant, changed his perspective.
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