BEYOND THE RANGES

335pp., map, paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2009) 2023

Historical novel about Mathew Travis, a discontented boat-repairman who leaves Cape Town to realise his boyhood dream of exploring the Amazon. 

Mountain guide Riaan Vorster is the author of Lines of Least Resistance, vignettes on Table Mountain's 101 hiking and scrambling routes. Beyond the Ranges is his debut novel. He lives in Cape Town.