The Diamond Hunters

The Diamond Hunters is a 1971 novel by Wilbur Smith.[1][2][3][4]

The Diamond Hunters
cover of Heinemann 1971 first edition
AuthorWilbur Smith
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHeinemann
Publication date
1971
ISBN0434714054

Adaptation

Smith tried to get it made into a film for a number of years.[5] It was adapted into a film, The Kingfisher Caper in 1975 and a television mini series in 2001.

gollark: With very expensive parts and a screwdriver, but I agree generally.
gollark: The hardware.
gollark: Oh. You mean building one.
gollark: Not really. Everything is horribly complex and there's lots of abstraction but it can break randomly.
gollark: Why would obsoletion of welding actually be a significant thing to *worry* about anyway?

References

  1. The Diamond Hunters at Wilbur Smith's webpage
  2. The Diamond Hunters by Wilbur Smith. 231 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $5.95
  3. New York Times. 23 Apr 1972. p. BR41. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "The accused a man at war". The Canberra Times. 17 July 1971. p. 14. Retrieved 5 December 2015 via National Library of Australia.
  5. Andrew Spicer, Rethinking Authorship in Film: The Struggle for Creative Control between Michael Klinger (Producer) and Wilbur Smith (Writer)


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