Born in Yorkshire, flame-haired June Kashita read avidly from the age of four, finding herself captivated by tales of the far-flung places to be found in such books as The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Kenya) and Living Among Cannibals (Papua New Guinea). As a newly qualified primary school teacher and all set for an English life, June met a man who was to become her future husband and as a black African, the cause of an almost irreconcilable rift between June and her parents. Consequently, risking all to follow her dreams and aspirations, June departed for a new life in the racial hot-bed of Northern Rhodesia as one of the impossibly few crusaders for mixed-race marriage. Her Yorkshire genes stood her in good stead to weather the storm as Zambia slowly arose from the fire of racial segregation, facing censure and deprivations with a clear and reasoned eye and, as this book will reveal - a good dollop of humour.