This book is about the author's early life growing up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. It is intended to provide the reader with a sense of how life was lead in the self governing colony of Southern Rhodesia during the period immediately following the second world war and culminating in the the colony's unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965 and the period therafter leading up to the author's departure from the country in 1975.The story relies on the author's memory, and events and his description of the way of life, are as seen through his eyes.