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Echoes from the Past
- The Brigandshaw Chronicles, Book 1
- Narrated by: Alex Bhat
- Length: 16 hrs
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Summary
Love, happiness, family. All he could ever wish for. Until it's violently ripped from him?
England 1887: Young Sebastian Brigandshaw and Emily Manderville share a secret love. Sebastian, born to opulence, and Emily, from a titled but now diminished family, dream of a life together...
But his autocratic father, driven by ambition and a thirst for aristocracy, seals their fate with a devil's pact. Emily is instead promised to Sebastian's immoral brother, tearing the lovers apart. She's lost to him.
And when banished to the distant British Cape colony, a new chapter unfolds for Sebastian. Stepping off a ship, bewildered and fearful, he forms an unexpected friendship with a Boer hunter. His destiny becoming more uncertain in an alluringly hostile country. And a destiny where the British meet the Boers in a fight to the death?
Echoes from the Past is the first instalment of the epic Brigandshaw Chronicles, chronicling the beginnings of the Brigandshaw family in Africa. This lost era of history marks the start of their enduring legacy.
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- Keith Sinclair
- 28-04-24
Good Africa story
While being a fun story it falls quite well short of Wilbur Smith...and I found the narration a little irritating as there was little definition between chapters
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- Amanda
- 03-04-22
Gripping story line
This is a story about the Boers and the British at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, an era that I have not read much about. At first the narrator annoyed me but I soon got used to his way of speaking and became engrossed in the book
The big problem is that this is book 1 of the Brigandshaw chronicles so one would expect Audible to have the next book and indeed all the books in the series but frustratingly although the other books exist they are not included in Audible. Why start a series and then leave listeners hanging?
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- Perry
- 31-08-23
A wonderful story of the complexities of Africa
If you like Wilbur Smith you will love Peter Rimmer's stories. Written with love and understanding of the African bush and all its Peoples. Hooked into the plot and characters within the first 10 minutes of listening. m narrator needs to work on his Afrikaans accent and pronounciation of Afrikaans names, but that can be easily overlooked by the gripping saga.
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- Robert Spencer
- 12-08-22
Very accurate storytelling of founding of Rhodesia
As I grew up in Rhodesia and lived and worked in South Africa I found this book to be so accurate both in the Fauna and historical descriptions. The Afrikaaners/Boers came to life as I know them so well. The native people were real and creditable. Many authors often lack in their characteristions in SA contexts. This book is a welcome exception. However, the narration was let down by poor pronounciations of place names and Afrikaans words which grated somewhat.
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- Beverley S. Thompson
- 02-07-23
Not bad
I got lost a couple of times but kept with it to the end. I enjoyed it enough to finish it but not enough to get the next book in the series.
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