Here is a Look at How Our Relationship to the Land is Shaped by Historical Migration, Conquest, and Long-Term Residence. European Settler Societies Have a Long History of Establishing a Sense of Belonging and Entitlement Outside Europe, but Zimbabwe Has Proven to Be the Exception to the Rule. Arriving in the 1890S, White Settlers Never Comprised More Than a Tiny Minority. Instead of Grafting Themselves Onto Local Societies, They Adopted a Strategy of Escape. While Imagining Natives Away, White Writers, Painters, Photographers and Even Farmers Crafted an Ideal of Settler-As-Nature-Lover. Hughes Examines the Ways in Which Whiteness and Conservation in Zimbabwe Have Co-Produced Each Other Over the Years.