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    <body><![CDATA[A hazy aerial photograph and a sinister curse – known only to the Africans – and Dr Benjamin Kazin stumbles on the archaeological discovery of a lifetime...<br/><br/>For nearly two thousand years, a brilliant and unknown ancient civilisation has remained buried in southern Africa. Now at last ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64925329">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For book number 400 I had to make it a Wilbur. It's told from two different perspectives - from the point of view of those who once lived at the ancient site and those who discovered the site centuries later. I think I was more interested in Part II of the book than in the beginning. Although, there...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77552962">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wilburt Smith is a South African writer I have liked for many years. I read the seven books that followed the Courtney family saga a long time ago and fell in love with the writer. I don't like his later books as much though. This perticular one, is very unusual. It goes back and forth in time. Arch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42485879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i recently got this book again and re-read it - very enjoyable to me how that the story is both in the present, then in the past - and the characters in the present and past are some sort of parallels of each other.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parallel stories link archeologists in present day Africa with with their historical conterparts in the lost cvilization of Opet. Fascinating look into the past.]]></body>
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    <review id="57329233">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good.  I'm pretty sure I read this originally in a reader's digest condensed version.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of my favorite authors...love all of his novels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best of best book I've ever read! :D]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this 'back in the day']]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Waiting in the stacks]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[great read...rare]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I might describe reading Wilbur Smith as a “guilty pleasure,” except for the fact that I’m a man and we never really feel guilty about our pleasures.  Smith’s characters are often one-dimensional and never subtle.  These are primarily adventure books, however, and Smith does keep the action ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30548381">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome.  I need to read this again...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really good - half is modern and half is history.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe the best so far. Another one-off tale set in central Africa, it has the intrigue of making a great modern archeological discovery followed by a parallel story as that discovery becomes the scene of an historical creation in which the main characters become alive once more. Historical fiction a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1255070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You're right, Emily, the cover on the version of this book you lent me is totally stupid...it has nothing to do with the book...but, it was a great book. I was totally stumped halfway through when Ben and Louren got to the vault and the twist the book took was totally unexpected - so interesting!  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37415388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3016315">
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    <body><![CDATA[my dad turned me on tothis book when i was 13. i remember it as one of my first &quot;big boy&quot; books. and because we shared a similar physical disfigurement i totaly identified with hue ben ammon axman of the gods. my dad could not have given me this book at a better time in my life. thanx pop.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an engaging archaeological romance; a really exciting page-turning thrilller. It's split into two halves between the ancient and contemporary worlds that complement each other perfectly. Good stuff!  ]]></body>
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