“In the Wilderness of South Africa, or The Adventures of the Boer and His Family” is the first book in Mine Read’s trilogy “Boys of the Bush.”
In our age of television and the internet, it seems hard to surprise a person learning about South Africa with anything unusual. But after listening to this audio book, you’ll discover so many details about the nature and history of this land that you’ll be genuinely, astonishingly surprised. And now imagine how enchanting the book must have been to readers in the 19th century. And it’s all thanks to the author’s skill: he presents these facts not as dry information, but shapes them into a vivid and tense plot that makes you empathize with the heroes until the very last page.