Henss Journey, The

di Peter Henss (Autore)

Artificial Intelligence (Autore)

2-chooks publishing, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Spanning six centuries and two continents, The Henss Journey is a sweeping saga of survival, adaptation, and resilience. This biography tracks the Henss lineage from fourteenth-century Europe to the sunlit suburbs of modern Australia. At the heart of the narrative is Bernhard Wilhelm Walter Henss, a master furrier born in 1903 in the historic alleys of the Frankfurt Altstadt. Driven out by the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic, Walter escaped to Melbourne in 1929 just as the Great Depression took hold. When World War II erupted, he found himself trapped as a restricted Enemy Alien. Facing xenophobic attacks, including a gelignite bombing of his front garden on Anzac Avenue, Walter engineered a brilliant, invisible fortress of survival. Through corporate shadow accounting with the Polar Fur Co. and by weaving himself into the fraternal shield of local Freemasonry, Walter protected his wife and children from the crushing weight of wartime internment and asset seizure. Walter's story is the culmination of a deep Vertical History. The audiobook takes listeners back through time, unearthing the forgotten ancestors who paved his way: the Henss lineage of peasant guards defending Frankfurt's medieval watchtowers who built a prestigious urban furrier dynasty; the Stiastny musicians, a brilliant Bohemian dynasty of village schoolmasters and celebrated Prague cellists; the Lenz clothmakers, Westphalian refugee artisans who rebuilt their lives after seventeenth-century fires; and the Moerler and Schwab technocrats, the elite Saline Patriciate who built the revolutionary saltworks of Hesse. The Henss Journey is a cinematic exploration of how ordinary people navigate world-shattering catastrophes. It is a testament to the unyielding human will to build, adapt, and protect the ones we love.

• Autore: Peter Henss, Artificial Intelligence
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 04:00:49
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: 2-chooks publishing
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9780466101749