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The Burning Shore

The Burning Shore

Author(s): Wilbur Smith

Location(s): Africa, France

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Early 20th century

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This first volume of the second Courtney sequence, The Burning Shore is a marvellous epic of courage and love that moves from the blazing skies of war torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness.
It is the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune – a monumental journey of mystery and discovery.

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