Roughing It

Did you know the term ‘roughing it’ comes from the tent city at Algoa Bay? Or that the settlers carried grain rations on their backs for kilometres? 1820 descendant Ralph Goldswain retells the tale of the settlers’ dramatic first three years in South Africa in lively first-person accounts. Their letters, journals and diaries tell of the dangerous sea voyage and all the struggles of adapting to a perhaps equally dangerous new home…