Type of bind: Audio CD
EAN num: 9780736693929
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN number: 0736693920
Label: Books on Tape
Manufacturer: Books on Tape
Quantity: 21
Printing Date: December 18, 2003
Publishing house: Books on Tape
Sale Popularity Level: 1150639
Studio: Books on Tape
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The New York Times bestselling author and one of the greatest adventure writers of our time returns with a pulse-pounding tale of danger, courage, and suspense.
Tom Courtney and his brother Dorian battled both vicious enemies and nature itself on the high seas, finally reaching the Cape of Good Hope to start life afresh. Now, half a generation later, they are successful and contented: merchants and family men, prospering on the very edge of an immense and beautiful continent, Africa. In the tradition of Wilbur Smith’s earlier bestseller, Monsoon, this spellbinding new novel introduces the subsequent generation of Courtneys. They are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, traveling along the infamous “Robbers’ Road.”
It is a journey both exciting and hazardous---one that takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals. But the most dangerous predators of all are other Europeans, crazed by greed, jealousy, and lust, and determined to destroy utterly all members of the Courtney clan. This quest for vengeance results in a desperate chase---both on land and sea---that is one of the most extraordinary in modern literature.
Blue Horizon is a truly great adventure story, told by a master novelist at the height of his powers.
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Twenty years have passed since Tom and Dorian Courtney escaped the clutches of their enemies and settled at the Cape of Good Hope. Each had married the woman he loved, who bore each of them a son. Tom and Sarah Courtney's son Jim is a brash young man who irrevocably alters their destinies when he falls in love with a lovely young woman on a prison ship moored in the harbor. His plans to help her escape become a little more public than he intended when he has to rescue her from a sinking ship and spirit her away into the wilderness. Jim and Louisa suddenly have a number of enemies when a Dutch colonel sends a party after them. They have lots of harrowing adventures with both wild animals and the natives as a small band of Dutchmen trails them across the veld. Meanwhile, back in Cape Town, Colonel Keyser's men have provided him with evidence implicating the entire Courtney clan in Louisa's escape, and the Courtneys must band together even tighter when they learn that some of Dorian's old enemies from his years in the Arab world are on his trail, as well. With old enemies popping out of the woodwork and new ones appearing over the horizon, it's nonstop action for the whole Courtney family, no matter where they go.
Compared to most books I've read, this one is nonstop action and excitement from start to finish. Held subsequent to its predecessor, Monsoon, however, this book pales. It couldn't reach the heights of excitement or match the nail-biting intrigue found in the last Courtney adventure, and often the violence in this book seems superfluous to the story. Life has become more comfortable, and thus, less intense for the Courtney clan, but compared to anything else out there, this book delivers top-notch adventure. Though it doesn't quite measure up to the high level of quality I have come to expect from this author, it's still a very good swashbuckling adventure.
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I love a good "book" while travelling alone in my car, thus I purchase the audio books on a regular basis. And one can never go wrong with Wilbur Smith. Blue Horizon was particularly good and held my interest for several days during my commute.
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Take a voyage: this book is full of action, adventure & exploration. Let yourself get wrapped up in the pages & you'll have a ball!
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Fluff or not? Mostly highly enjoyable fluff
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Much like Smith's more recently works this is non-stop action; the story is filled with gore, war, elephant hunts, love, treachery, evil twins, mercy, and family all set in the backdrop of Smith's fantastic Africa.
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Africa is a great backdrop, there were no dull sections, great descriptions, and just plain easy, fun reading. Every once in a while that's what I need.
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It's fluff. If you're looking for an historical treatise on anything serious this is not for you. Also, not for children as there is lots of gore and more than a little sex.
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I have read almost all of Wilbur Smith's Books, starting with "Gold Mine" , which led to the movie, "Gold", about the South African Gold mining industry. In Blue Horizon, and Monsoon, he seems to have become too pre-occupied with sex and torture, attempting to meet the cravings of lustful man at his lowest points, rather than artfully depicting events with great literary expertise that once caught my eye. Read the preface to "Gold Mine" , where he describes the volcanic beginnings of the African Continent in vivid detail. This was the Wilbur Smith's writings that I learned to love. His more recent works are filled with violence and sadism that I, for one, prefer to avoid. None of these recent books are worth reading, buying, nor recommending to young readers. Even if you are over age 13, I highly recommend that you avoid Wilbur Smith's recent writing!
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