Now Be a Good Aunt...!

Philip Greenhow's father, following service in the R.F.C. in World War I, bought a thousand acres of virgin land in Southern Rhodesia. There, enduring loneliness, poverty, and the rigours of early pioneering life, he created a farm. The books starts with the backgrounds of Philip's parents, describes how they met, and their subsequent family life in the colony between the wars.
The author was born there in 1937, and went to boarding school from the age of eight. He contrasts his strictly ord...