<Tr> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Td> Pan Macmillan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1980--1984; 2005 </Td> </Tr> <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 books are in the following series </P>

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