South African author
In September 2013 Cathy and I did our second road trip to Namibia, once more including a visit to the main view site of the Fish River Canyon, the second biggest canyon in the world. On that occasion we stayed at the Canyon Roadhouse, the interior of which provided the photograph that was used for…
Bushman’s Nek has a special relevance for my wife and I. We went there initially to do research for my book For the Love of Frances, the skirmish at the top of Bushman’s Nek Pass between the escaping AmaHlubi people and the small expeditionary forces led by Anthony Durnford the purpose of the visit. Since then we…
My latest book, Others Will Have Their Say is going through the final stages before publication. The picture above is a candidate for the cover if the book is self-published. It was taken at Madisa Camp, Namibia, one of the locations in the novel. What follows is the Preface, Chapter One and a part of…
We thought the first Covid 19 wave was over. We thought we might be lucky in South Africa, that if anything was to threaten our lives or our economy it might only come with winter in the middle of 2021. We were wrong. It has come again with a new strain, ironically during the season…
THE MAP CHAPTER ONE
During the lock-down I had great fun doing three photo albums. The one with this cover paired thirteen of my poems, most written in late 2007 and early 2008, with photographs taken on a cruise on the Queen Elizabeth II from Cape Town to Southampton. Featured below is a page from this album, with a…
Jo Petzer of Cosmic Creations is clearly not satisfied with doing the conventional when it comes to turning a photograph into a book cover. For my new novel, Nowhere Man I gave her two photographs to choose from, both taken in Namibia, both of a man walking alone, coming from nowhere and going nowhere. The one was…
Hi Peter, I really enjoyed Motor Games – such a human story and a story too, of humanity. I’m always interested in the working of businesses other than the one I spent my life in – primarily mining and minerals. As a fairly normal male I’ve also always been interested in motor vehicles. And my understanding is…
On our recent trip to northern Europe we had a five day introduction to Norway. It included a ride on the renowned Flamm railway and a trip in a high speed ferry down the Sognefjord – the longest and deepest fjord in Norway – to Bergen. The ferry ride was broken in the small town…
A motor journey through four Southern African countries.
