<P> The Ballantyne Novels are a series of four novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith . They chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family , from the 1860s through until 1980 's . against a background of the history of Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) . A fifth novel published in 2005 seeks to combine the Ballantyne narrative with that of Smith 's other family saga , The Courtney Novels . </P>
<P> The Ballantyne Novels are a series of four novels published between 1980 and 1984 by Wilbur Smith . They chronicle the lives of the Ballantyne family , from the 1860s through until 1980 's . against a background of the history of Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) . A fifth novel published in 2005 seeks to combine the Ballantyne narrative with that of Smith 's other family saga , The Courtney Novels . </P>
who wrote a series of novels about the ballantine 's of africa
who wrote a series of novels about the ballantine 's of africa
Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith