This book tells the inner truth of what life was like for the Voortrekkers and early British Settlers as the first lived and farmed in and around Pietermaritzburg. It tells of what is suspected to have caused the City Hall Fire in July 1898. It talks of social controversy, the first Glider flight in South Africam early Howick Falls tragedies and smugglers in Natal. This was life in early Natal, where people took risks and there wer no guarantees.