Advantages: Authentic details and a great read Disadvantages: none at all..
Wilbur Smith was born in Rhodesia, where he still lives with his wife and family.Enthusiastic about big-game hunting, fishing and rock climbing,he has traveled extensively through Africa.
These personal experiences have enabled him to write about the traumatic and disturbing state of White man's early days in South Africa in vivid and authentic color.
He has been often accused of being sexist and a Racist and having extreme political inclinations.However,he remains a great path breaking writer , who is known to be a fanatic for accuracy where historical facts are concerned..
Some of his best selling works include:
When the Lion Feeds (1964) which was his first novel, The Sound of Thunder (1966),A Sparrow Falls (1977)The Burning Shore (1985)A Time to Die (1989) Birds of Prey (1997) Monsoon (1999) and Blue Horizon ( 2003) among others ...
Advantages: Excellent allignment, nice even balanced feel. Disadvantages: Not cheap, takes time to get used to.
My overall putting ability was never too bad but somedays it can be just plain awful, i decided after much deliberation that i needed a better tool for the job, i was fed up of missing short putts for par and walking away feeling like i could have done better, so i went out and spent £50 for a 2nd hand Odyssey 2 ball white hot putter - im glad i did, mostly.
First of all i would like to say that to improve at any sport theres nothing like practice, then more practice, this is especially true for golf, and none more so than the art of putting, after all its on the putting green where you play most of your shots (an average score of 90 would usually entail 35-40 putts, you use the putter more than any other club in your bag),
The Odyssey 2 ball white hot putter is no gimme, you wont pick it up and start to hole everything on sight ...
Advantages: A book that gives escapism a new meaning Disadvantages: Not for "short book" readers (674 pages)
I've read almost all of Wilbur Smith's books now and after the exhausting task of finishing each one, I have to go and find the next (Anywhere dammit - bins, bookstores, charity shops - I don't care!!!!)
Monsoon, set in the dawn of the eighteenth Century (another episode of the Courtney family - set about 25 years after “Birds of Prey” left off) is an enchanting tale of a family torn apart through each other’s differences.
The East India Trading Company suffers catastrophic losses due to pirates on the high seas and after four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for what will be his most dangerous voyage yet - a life or death mission in the name of Empire… His sons (William - Black Billy to the other brothers, the determined bully of the boys, Guy and Tom - twins a few years ...
