Biography - van der Post, Laurens (Jan) (1906-1996): An ...
 Author: --Sketch by Ed Scheff Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 12 Publication Date: 2003-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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First Catch Your Eland
Unique; very worthwhile if your interest is African Cuisine: Van der Post wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction about Africa ("A Story Like the Wind", "A Far-Off Place", and "The Lost World of the Kalahari"). This [... more]
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Feather Fall: An Anthology
Feather Fall started me on a venture into Africa.: A friend gave me Feather Fall for Christmas two years ago, thinking I would enjoy reading it. For some reason I put it on the shelf and forgot about it for several months. When I picked it up and started [... more]
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Journey into Russia
Incisive: Considering this book was written nearly 40 years ago I found that the authors incisive comments about Russian character to be right on the nose. Accurate and quite telling. Actually surprising me that nothing really has changed since then in [... more]
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The Seed and the Sower
Author: Laurens Van Der Post Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780140024029 Edition: New Impression Format: Import ISBN: 0140024026 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 1973 [... more]
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Jung and the Story of Our Time
An Intimate Look at Jung and his Work: After World War II, still in uniform and having been in a Japanese POW camp, Van der Post arrived in Zurich where his wife was studying with Carl Jung's mistress, Toni Wolff. Van der Post met Jung and an unlikely [... more]
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
Should come with warning label: Anyone who is thinking about reading this book should know that VDP was a major BS artist. Very good at it too, was a friend of royalty and also Jung. If you can find it, read J.D.F. Jones "Storyteller: The Lives of [... more]
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A Far-Off Place
An endearing story: I remembered watching this movie a long time ago as a kid, which is why I decided to buy it, so many years later. Long story short, the movie is just as good as I remembered it to be. While the story is cliche at times, and simplistic [... more]
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A Mantis Carol
Wise, inspiring, meaningful...: A beautiful account of a period in Van Der Post's life which tries to demonstrate the imponderable workings of love, of living myth and the weaving together of diverse lives into a single, greater synthesis. A profound, [... more]
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The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow
Author: Laurens Van Der Post Binding: Perfect Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 150 EAN: 9783856305406 ISBN: 3856305408 Number Of Pages: 393 Publication Date: 1998-01-01 [... more]
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About Blady: A Pattern Out Of Time
Amazon.com Review: 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 [... more]
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A Story Like the Wind
A Story Like the Wind: This is one of my favorite novels of all-time, together with its sequel A Far-Off Place. It's a moving story, beautifully written, and full of the wisdom that I do not myself possess -- but wish I did. I loved it when I first read [... more]
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