Most of it had been written long after Melek al'Hakim fled his father's land.
The family were Protestant Huguenots who fled their native land in the sixteenth century to escape the threat of religious persecution.
A man who is fleeing his native land for ever has no time for petty revenges and needless precautions.
This was the result of white plantation owners fleeing their land during the Civil War, leaving their plantations still inhabited.
Being forced to flee his own land had taken something out of him.
"Why do you flee your green land and cold water?"
Two Scots, fleeing their native land, find freedom in 18th-century America.
He fled his land in 1959 after the Chinese takeover and has never returned.
The son is a photographer fleeing his native land.
Aid workers say that locals villagers are forced to flee their land so often that they cannot properly cultivate it.