A book about the family of Mohammed Adam Patel, commonly known as MA Patel who travelled from Bharuch in Gujarat, India on a ship in 1934 to Fiji. Both India and Fiji were ruled by the British at the time. MA Patel settled in Rakiraki and his wife Ayisha arrived in Fiji in 1947 when they married. Over the next sixteen years they had nine children. MA Patel received his education in Gujarat and for the period was fairly well versed in the English language and he also self taught himself the letter writing style of that period. This was put to good use as Fiji under the British rule of the time required people to use the English language for all official purposes. MA Patel worked for various people in their small shops, carried loads of small items wrapped in bed sheets as a hawker merchant for a few years to make ends meet, until he borrowed 400 pounds from fellow Indians from Gujarat to buy a sugarcane farm. Using his knowledge of the English language, he was able to articulate to the British authorities that he should be allowed to build a general merchant shop on his newly acquired land. MA Patel had studied Bookkeeping up to Metriculation level in Gujarat and he put this to good use by gaining a Licensed Accountant accreditation in Fiji. Between his humble shop, cane farm and his accountancy practice, he was able to provide for the basic needs of both his immediate family in Fiji, as well as sending money to his parents and extended family in Gujarat, India. He was able to educate his children with his meagre resources with his children graduating as a lawyer, engineer, architect and scientist. This book documents that trials and tribulations of the entire family who have always felt as strangers in the numerous countries they presently reside in, namely England, Australia and New Zealand under the current political situations in each of these countries and the entire world generally. This book is indicative of similar experiences by other migrants the world over.