TY - BOOK AU - Smith, Wilbur A, TI - Men of men SN - 0385178344 AV - PR9405.9.S5 M4 1983 U1 - 823 19 PY - 1981/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Fiction KW - Diamond mines and mining KW - fast KW - Zimbabwe KW - Historical fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N2 - In the dangerous, diamond-rich African countryside, where only the strongest and the luckiest survive, a powerful family forges its destiny. Zouga Ballantyne, whose thirst for wealth leads him to risk a fortune in the ultimate gamble. His sons, Ralph and Jordan, who seek to tame the wild continent in their own ways. And Robyn Ballantyne, the beautiful healer, forced to save the life of the man she both hates and loves in the unmerciful war for dominance between white and black ER -