The story of a Rhodesian boy growing up in the innocence and the violence of Colonial Africa.
From childhood he had learnt the ways of Africa and of its history, yet he was also a product of his own time and place and of his own distinct English culture. He grew to understand that there are few absolutes among people and societies. Only the Bush is pure in its pitiless logic, in its stark contrast between life and death.
His experiences shape and change him as he grows by stages from boyhood through youth to young manhood, his rites of passage set against a background of love, hate, and pitiless civil war.
From childhood he had learnt the ways of Africa and of its history, yet he was also a product of his own time and place and of his own distinct English culture. He grew to understand that there are few absolutes among people and societies. Only the Bush is pure in its pitiless logic, in its stark contrast between life and death.
His experiences shape and change him as he grows by stages from boyhood through youth to young manhood, his rites of passage set against a background of love, hate, and pitiless civil war.
