Published 2026
Edge of the Continent
The Western Cape
A visual chronicle of the most diverse region of South Africa
Available worldwide through our distribution partners
The book
Ten years in the making
52,000 photographs, distilled to the 300 that became this book — because a place this big doesn't fit in a memory, and barely fits in a book. This is the closest you'll get to holding it.
Look inside
Six regions, six different worlds
Some of these took a single morning, others four years of coming back — but the book was built so that wherever you open it, you arrive somewhere worth standing.
The author
The man behind the book
Arnold Petersen: A decade's devotion
He returned to the Western Cape season after season, until returning was simply how he came to know it. Ten years, 52,000 frames, and one conviction that never moved: that a place this old, and this indifferent to the people at its edge, could only be earned slowly, on its own terms and in its own light. The three hundred photographs he kept are here, each carrying the history of the ground it was taken on — and something of what it asked of him to stay.
The Reader
Who it's for
Hospitality
Your guests chose the Western Cape. This book lets them hold it — the landscapes they came to see, and the history behind them, told by a South African author born and living here. Placed in a room or a lobby, it gives guests more of the region they travelled for, and shows that your property champions the local talent its visitors come to discover.
Home
A coffee table book made to be seen, not stored — a striking presence in any living space, and a piece of décor that rewards a second look, and a third. It sits as easily in a quiet study as on a coffee table in a room full of guests. Give it to someone who loves the Cape, someone who has moved away and misses it, or someone who has always meant to visit but hasn't yet.
The Edition
The book in hand
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 338
- Photographs 319
- Dimensions 279 × 216 mm
- Spine 25 mm
- Weight 1.37 kg
- Interior Premium colour
- Paper White
- Language English
- Publisher GeoParallax
- Published 2026
- ISBN 978-1-0483-0574-6
Price: ZAR 1,625.00
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Ten years, six regions, one book.
The beauty of the place, the weight of its past, and the stories that tie them together, captured, and now yours to own.
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