"In 1903, the British offered Uasin Gishu in Kenya as a National Home for Jews escaping persecution in Eastern Europe. However, this was never put into effect. This novel explores the feelings of the time and the experiences of an ordinary Jewish settler family. It also focuses on the impact that international events and racial attitudes throughout the Twentieth Century had on East Africa. A character conjectures how differently things might have turned out if desperate refugees, instead of Afrikaner trekkers and English officers, had been established around Farm 64."--BOOK JACKET.