A Far Off Place
Warning! Spoiler: The irony of the Disney world view: Disney does it again! They manage to turn two beautiful, compelling books into a story of squabbling American adolescents. I find it supremely ironic that Disney felt it necessary to turn a murderous [... more]
CDN$15.05
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Story Like the Wind
Story Like the Wind: Here is a tale as intriguing as its title. It moved me as no other book about Africa can. If you loved the little Bushman on "The Goods Must Be Crazy", you must read Laurens Van Der Post. The underlying motive in this work [... more]
CDN$25.79
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The Seed and the Sower
Author: Laurens Van Der Post Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780099428763 ISBN: 0099428768 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2002-01-03 Release Date: 2002-03-26 [... more]
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About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time
From Amazon.com: In 1991, five years before he died, South Africa-born writer and amateur ethnographer Sir Laurens van der Post took a long look at his life and the small details that resonated over time. Among the things he recalls in this luminous book [... more]
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
gripping, informative and inspiring: I stayed up until three AM reading this book. It's both gripping, informative and inspiring. Van Der Post starts out telling us about the wild Bushman, untamed or corrupted by civilization, almost extinct in his time, [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Mantis Carol
A unique book. A true story that reads like science fiction.: I loved this book. It is very short and can be read in a sitting, but it is really profound. The clash of African and American cultures is depicted with great tenderness, with no judgment [... more]
CDN$22.50
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