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Print: $15.37 Download: $4.20 This is the story of a young woman’s first encounters
with rural South Africa. Coming from the all-mod-cons
society of Britain at the beginning of the 1980’s, the
author is literally transplanted to a farm in the foothills
of the Drakensberg mountains in what is now Kwazulu
Natal - where life was considerably more primitive than
the one she had come from.
Once there, she finds her feet in the ways of Africa
with the help of a charming, elderly Dutch couple,
an appealing but wily African farm hand, his practical
and motherly daughter and a wise and fascinating
neighbour who has a fund of local knowledge.
They are tales of a different kind of life, which
include living without electricity, hand-milking cows,
drought, veld fires and mad-cap adventures into the unknown,
all told with affection, respect and a liberal dose of tongue-in-cheek humour.
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