Looking Westward to the Hills
Rob Lowe
ISBN 978-1-915803-25-2
 
If you can put up with poor grammar, understanding that this is what was spoken; if you can cope with poor quality photographs, seeing beyond the actual image; if you can understand that ‘tribe’ is ‘extended family’, similar to a Scots clan, and not be offended by it; if you can put yourself in African shoes and see their point of view, and then put on European shoes and see ours also, then you will enjoy this book, my friend. (With apologies to Rudyard Kipling.)
 
This is the story of the first part of Rob’s life from education, life at home on the farm, to a voyage to South Africa and what he found there: cattle, some very good; police, most very good; horses, variable; people, mostly friendly and helpful, dogs likewise; the witchcraft issue, worrying. What he learned there set him up for a further twenty years in Africa and the rest of his life when he returned to England.