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Title: Orphan Hero
Subtitle: A Novel of the Civil War
Author: John Babb
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-13-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From a former US assistant surgeon general comes the epic tale of a young mans struggle to survive a journey across America during the Civil War. Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by the earlier departure of his father for the California 1849 goldfields, and threatened with being locked in a cage with his stepmothers psychotic brother, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin B .F. Windes decides to abandon home and trail his fathers path. Thus begins a trip of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States. B. F. spends the next 11 years in gold rush towns in California - first as a barber, then as a physicians assistant - before departing for the Caribbean at age 19, where he becomes a blockade runner during the American Civil War. At wars end he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were nothing more than common murderers and thieves - Bushwhackers. He travels to the Missouri Ozarks, where he meets the girl of his dreams. But their romance is threatened when he finds himself battling a man from his past in order to safeguard his family and his future. Orphan Hero, based on the life of the authors great-grandfather in the mid-19th century, is a tale of courage and perseverance in the face of incredible hardship.