'Robin Swift’s great uncle, Randall Smith, settled in Kenya in 1904, blazing a trail for Robin’s father and uncle who followed in the 1930s. This book tells of Robin’s childhood in the 1950s and his experience working as a young coffee estate manager in the early 1960s before going on to agricultural college in England. After college, Robin returned to Kenya and coffee farming. Soon he embarked on a career change, moving to Zambia and later Rhodesia, working in the agricultural machinery business. After he was married in Rhodesia, Robin and his wife started on a new stage in their lives, with a life-changing posting to Botswana for Robin to work at the Caterpillar dealership in Gaborone. The family returned to Harare in Zimbabwe in the early 1990s, shortly before the Mugabee government forcibly evicted thousands of farmers from their land. In 2004, the family decided to migrate to Australia. This led to a whole new way of life, dealing with the challenges of finding employment and a new home.' (Publication summary)
