The burning shore
By: Wilbur Smith
Series: The Courtneys of Africa -- 1
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
ISBN-13: 9781447221715
Subjects: Courtney family (Fictitious characters); Fiction; History
Description: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun and extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she and Michael Courtney had shared - and sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster and adventure she must first brave all the combinedterrors of war, shipwreck, thirst, fever and the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul ...
Notes: Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1985.