Some images taken on a cruise from Cape Town to Southampton, calling on ports in Namibia, Cape Verde, the Canaries and Madeira.
South African author
Author: Peter Cleary
My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Cornwall and to the American South-West, two places I’ve long wanted to visit. These nine photographs, one from each place we visited, give a good introduction to the visual delights we experienced.
Getting into this book was like watching the launch of a space ship. For a while there was plenty of smoke and fire, but no momentum – like an army marching time – and then the afterburners kicked in and the spectacular lift-off followed. Peter Cleary methodically sets the scene in the early chapters and…
IT’S no secret that I am an admirer of Peter Cleary and of his writings. ‘For the Love of Frances’ is his ninth offering, and I have had the pleasure of reviewing all he has penned to date. In all previous appraisals, there was much to praise and precious little to criticise – constructively or otherwise. But…
We stayed at Three Trees Hill Lodge for three days and enjoyed a tour of Spioenkop with Ron Gold, both excellent, but it was the views and the light which brought my camera out of retirement.
The acquisition of a new lens sent us to Mkhuze Game Reserve for a few nights during the Christmas break. The clarity of the lens was all I could wish for, and it can only get better as I discover the new world It has opened for me.
With a storyline as uncompromising as the harsh terrain in which it is set, ‘Death on the Kunene’ is by far the best book yet from the pen of Peter Cleary – and that’s saying something. There’s not a dull page or an implausible character and once again, the historical and geographical references are impeccable.…
My son sent me four photographs, one of which he wished to enter into the Guardian newspaper’s monthly competition with the theme ‘the great outdoors’, and asked which of the four I preferred. I was amazed at the work, amongst the best he has produced, and my wife suggested I obtain Andrew’s permission to publish…
These four pictures, taken of sunsets on the Kunene River above the Epupa Falls, are all candidates for the cover of “Death On The Kunene.” Which one do you think will find favour with Jane Harley of Boutique Books?
It seems appropriate that this book makes its entry into the literary world at a time when South Africans are celebrating 20 years of democracy. Peter Cleary’s latest offering is as much a documentary on the apartheid era as it is a block-buster novel. Full of intrigue, passion and indeed the entire range of human…