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Echoes from the Past

The Brigandshaw Chronicles, Book 1

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Echoes from the Past

By: Peter Rimmer
Narrated by: Alex Bhat
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A cocktail of Ken Follett, Wilbur Smith, and Jeffrey Archer, Echoes from the Past is a sweeping historical saga about exile, belonging, and the lives forever changed by love and war.

England, 1887. At seventeen, cast out by a father who despises him, Sebastian Brigandshaw leaves behind his childhood sweetheart, Emily, and the only home he has ever known.

Alone and uncertain of who he is, Sebastian arrives in southern Africa expecting hardship, loneliness, and survival.

Instead, he finds Tinus.

A Boer hunter living deep within the African wilderness, Tinus offers Sebastian friendship, purpose, and a place beside a campfire in a land both beautiful and unforgiving.

Together they travel across vast rivers and endless plains beneath African skies, building a life shaped by loyalty, danger, and the quiet hope that the past can finally be left behind.

For the first time in his life, Sebastian feels something close to freedom.

Far from England, he begins to believe he may finally have found where he belongs.

But history does not leave people untouched…

When a devastating truth about Emily reaches him from home, Sebastian is forced to return to England… knowing that the life he has fought to rebuild may soon be lost to him forever.

Rich in atmosphere and unforgettable characters, Echoes from the Past begins the Brigandshaw Chronicles, an epic historical fiction series spanning 16 MASSIVE novels.

©2015 Peter Rimmer (P)2022 Heather Stretch
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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

Good Africa story

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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.

A wonderful story of the complexities of Africa

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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.

Not bad

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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.

Very accurate storytelling of founding of Rhodesia

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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?

Gripping story line

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