The Fire Within: An Antipodean Escape: An Antipodean Escape

This book is about survival, escaping from a hard death and having to travel to the ends of the earth to do so.

People immigrated in the past, are doing it now, and will continue to do so into the future; the reason, often as simple as survival, as the story illustrates.

Spanning the most tumultuous years in the South Pacific's history, and the events erupting within them, the book places Gilbert and William, two brothers of 13 children, attempting a life in the Shetland Islands.

Their family,...