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Historical person
1857–1941
Robert Baden-Powell was a British Army officer and founder of the Scout movement. His fame grew after the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War, and he later turned military scouting ideas into a global youth organisation.
Wilbur Smith’s The Sound of Thunder places Robert Baden-Powell within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. Wilbur Smith’s Fire on the Horizon places Robert Baden-Powell within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
Series
The When the Lion Feeds Sequence follows Sean Courtney and his family through the transformation of southern Africa from the Anglo-Zulu War and the Witwatersrand gold rush to the Second Boer War and the aftermath of the First World War.
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This crossover sequence brings the Ballantyne and Courtney families together during the late nineteenth-century contest for power in Africa. Its action moves from the Mahdist siege of Khartoum to Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian invasion and the opening of the Second Boer War.
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