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  • Empire Made

  • My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India
  • By: Kief Hillsbery
  • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Empire Made

By: Kief Hillsbery
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
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Lost in time for generations, the story of a 19th-century English gentleman in British India - a family mystery of love found and loyalties abandoned, finally brought to light. In 1841, 20-year-old Nigel Halleck set out for Calcutta as a clerk in the East India Company. He went on to serve in the colonial administration for eight years before abruptly leaving the company under a cloud and disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. While most traces of his life were destroyed in the bombing of his hometown during World War II, Nigel was never quite forgotten - the myth of the man who headed east would reverberate through generations of his family. Kief Hillsbery, Nigel's nephew many times removed, embarked on his own expedition, spending decades researching and traveling through India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nepal in the footsteps of his long-lost relation. In uncovering the remarkable story of Nigel's life, Hillsbery beautifully renders a moment in time when the arms of the British Empire extended around the world. Both a powerful history and a personal journey, Empire Made weaves together a clash of civilizations, the quest to discover one's own identity, and the moving tale of one man against an empire.

©2017 Kief Hillsbery (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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An overlooked gem

The narration is excellent, and the arc of the story phenomenal. This is one of those books which made it necessary to invest some time, and I often hit the 30 second rewind to hear it again, but it is worth the listen. It's a history and a mystery book, entirely non-fiction, and covers over thirty years of the authors life, as he travels to far off places and into archived sources, in order to place the listener into the first half of the 19th Century while the British Raj rules India. The mystery is unraveled as the history unfolds. I thought I knew quite a bit of the history, but Empire Made gave me insights into things I overlooked, and gave it a compelling personal twist. The author literally spent decades getting the tiniest of factoids right in this amazing story, and I ended this satisfied and amazed at how much I'd learned.

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