An enchanting, true story of Penelope Matthew’s family, from their early settler days on the frontier of colonial Natal to the Gold Rush on the Witwatersrand and beyond, into the wilds of early Northern Rhodesia. The story of the Allison family and their loyal servants begins in the later 1800s on their farm “Rosenstein” at Oliviershoek, nestling in the shadows of the great Drakensberg. Their adventures, bitter dissapointments, hardships, and courageous struggle through the brutal Zulu wars, two tragic Boer wars, floods, hail,, and everything nature could conspire against them, has been artfully reconstructed by a direct descendent of those early Natal settlers. The survived all this and more, making for an entirely compelling, family story.