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A Falcon Flies is remarkable for its sense of the African wild, grimly informative about the slave trade, and alive with the obsessions and impossible love of its strongminded heroine. It is the first of the Ballantyne novels.
- Wilbur Smith, Wilbur A. Smith
- 1980
Jul 19, 2024 · (William Butler Yeats) Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst.
Quick answer: The lines "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in "The Second Coming" represent how the ordinary people are no longer paying heed to the old social and political leaders, but...
Jan 1, 1980 · Dr Robyn Ballantyne, daughter of a famous missionary and explorer, returns on a joint expedition with her brother Zouga to southern Africa, the land of her birth, fired with the desire to bring the Africans medicine, Christianity and an end to the slave trade, still flourishing in 1860.
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Feb 1, 2021 · But long before they sight that mighty continent, Robyn knows that she and Mungo will battle with all the fury of natural enemies -- and love with all the desperation of those unable to evade the commands of fate.
Dr Robyn Ballantyne, daughter of a famous missionary and explorer, returns on a joint expedition with her brother Zouga, to southern Africa the land of her birth, fired with the desire to bring the Africans medicine, Christianity and an end to the slave trade, still flourishing in 1860. She heard another movement pass behind her turned shoulder ...
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Jan 1, 2018 · BOOK 1 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH. 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King. 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times. 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks...
