Elephant Song (Smith novel)

Elephant Song is a 1991 novel by Wilbur Smith.[1][2] Publishers Weekly stated that the novel contained "some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers."[3]

Elephant Song
First UK edition
AuthorWilbur Smith
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
February 4, 1992
Pages498 pp.
ISBN978-0679408994

It was the third-highest selling novel in England in 1992.[4]

Plot

Documentary filmmaker Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of ivory and kills Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong's childhood friend.

References

  1. Elephant Song at Wilbur Smith's website
  2. Bencivenga, Jim (18 March 1992). "An African Tragedy". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 15.
  3. Review at Publishers Weekly, accessed 18 May 2013
  4. "The fastsellers of 1992". The Guardian. 12 January 1993. p. A10.


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