Laurens van der Post

An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.

Van der Post’s incomparable knowledge of Africa illuminates this epic novel, set near the Kalahari Desert, about a boy on the verge of manhood, his experiences with the wonder and mystery of a still-primitive land, and his secret friendship with the Bushman whose life he saves. The narrative of A Story like the Wind continues in A Far-Off Place.

The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushmen. The basis for a major film release from Walt Disney Pictures.

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0140024026.This is war as experienced in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java in 1942, but, above all, war as experienced in the souls of men. What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirits the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds of love and friendship are forged between the prisoners - and their gaolers. It is a battle of survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationship develops.

Combines a spiritual odyssey with the author's account of his dangerous journey--part of a British fact-finding mission--through two little-known regions of British Central Africa in 1949

The author’s passionate concern for Africa and for the human spirit is evident in this portrait of the “First People” of southern Africa, the Bushmen. Van der Post describes his desert travels, the splendid landscape and wildlife, and his encounters with the Bushman, an elusive culture. Drawings by Maurice Wilson.

“The fascination of Jung is inescapable and van der Post has given us an excellent book—eloquent, learned and most impressive in its evocation of a devilishly provocative man.”— The Nation That Laurens van der Post should have chosen to write about Jung will come as no surprise to the millions of people who saw the three television programs that he devoted to the story of Jung's life and work. Indeed, part of the compulsion for putting the experience of his extraordinarily fruitful friendship with Jung into book form was precisely that the limitations of a single film sequence left him with the insistent feeling of a challenge only partially met. To present Jung as he knew him, not Jung the psychologist but rather Jung the man, the discoverer and explorer of a new dimension in the human spirit, was the task which Laurens van der Post set himself and which has taken his special gifts to accomplish.

Journey Into Russia is the extraordinary record of an extraordinary journey into the heartland -- and the hearts -- of the Russian people. Twenty years ago, master storyteller Laurens van der Post travelled thousands of miles across Russia meeting people from every ethnic, educational and occupational background. Wherever he went, he talked and listened, supplementing what he saw and heard with wide reading. The result is this unique book -- a vision, both informed and intuitive, of the people who inhabit more than eight million square miles of the earth. With the ideological warfare between the United States and Russia continuing to escalate, the need for Western understanding of the Russian psyche is more important today than ever before. Journey Into Russia is a beautifully written, highly original book that makes a powerful contribution to this understanding.

This book is the remarkable story of his experiences in the prison camp, but it is also a meditation on the morality of the Bomb, a compassionate and moving contemplation of human violence.

(Raymond Mortimer Sunday Times rank Laurens van der Post with the best writers of English this book confirms my constant admiration and the nobility of his mind --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Daily Telegraph 'I hope all those who are appalled by the destruction of Hiroshima will read this book for a greater understanding of what man is capable of doing')

A New York psychoanalyst and a Kalahari Bushman inspire the author to an exploration of primitive consciousness and the modern unconscious and their common promptings and imponderables

Definitely a collectors item.

The Hunter and the Whale

"Laurens van der Post must, at the age of seventy-five, have had as interesting a life as any man alive ... [This is] a richly complicated book which has the great virtue of almost everything Sir Laurens has it is impossible to put down. One can quite easily read it as an adventure/travel story, another glimpse into a most extraordinary life, ignoring the various themes which the author cleverly weaves into a philosophical argument. But nobody , I should imaging, will put down the book without feeling himself - however incorrectly - a wiser man ... There is nobody alive in whose company I would sooner spend five hours." Auberton Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph, Britain.

Book by Laurens van der Post

Hardcover. Very Good. Dust Jacket Very Good with Brodart protector, clipped. Hogarth Press 1973, second impressionFirst published in The Cornhill, and then as a book in 1954, has not been available as a separate volume since 1963. This is the story of Hara, a Japanese sergeant in virtual command of a prisoner-of-war camp. It is more than a little autobiographical for Colonel van der Post was himself a prisoner in the Far East. The book is a penetrating study of the Japanese mentality, the Japanese myth, as personified by this demonic, naive, brutal, weirdly idealistic sergeant. How Hara's curiosity about Father Christmas saves a British Prisoner from the death-cell, and how this officer later spoke up for his torturer at a War Crimes Tribunal, provide the climaxes of a book which proves once again that truth is far stranger than fiction. But A Bar of Shadow does something more. It shows that men not only must but can love their and it shows how this most difficult love may be achieved by a courageous imaginative understanding.

One man's view of a part of Africa- very special, very personal, and, of course, far from comprehensive. Lots of recipes and beautiful photos.

Last year the rain went away. It became very dry; there was no water and the sun killed the crops of my father.Leaving the kraal and misty Valley of a Thousand Hills, Kenon has come to Port Benjamin in search of work. In Johan he finds a master and a friend. For a time it seems their unorthodix friendship can break down the barrier between black and white. But storm clouds are gathering and the forces of love and politics will explode into tradedy.

The author of The Heart of the Hunter shares his vision and his manifesto for renewal in the human spirit in this collection of three essays--"The Little Memory," "The Great Memory," and "The Other Journey."

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This book is a first edition book. This book also has a dust cover and it is in an excellent condition.

David is a painter. We follow him through the vivid scenes of his boyhood in South Africa, to England, where he makes a reputation and an unfortunate marriage which comes close to destroying both his vision and his integrity.

Presents the personal story of a World War II POW who stays behind in Indonesia in August 1945 to help preserve peace and ends up overseeing the same Japanese who had held him in captivity and ordered his execution

A blend of personal reminiscence and historical insight seasons a history of Africa through its food, from the antelope of the Bushmen to the pastries of the Cape Colonists

Essays discuss indigenous peoples, Africa, Japan, war, forgiveness, travel, society, artists, love, and the capacity for wonder

Dark Eye in Africa, The by Van Der Post, Laurens. 8vo.

The pattern of renewal as I have experienced it, in what I call the “first man of Africa,” is, I think, the earliest known human pattern still alive and accessible to us today. I present it as an experience, with perhaps more confidence than I should, because I think that what we need in the world today is not knowledge of these things so much as experience of these things; because it seems to me one of the tragedies of modern man is that he is cut off from experiencing this immense dynamic pattern of renewal deep in himself. So begins the retelling of the Bushman creation stories: how the world began, what Man was like, how life is renewed. The Bushman’s stories are all told in images, which are a kind of hieroglyphic of the spirit. Join with the Laurens in discovering the beginnings.

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of worldwide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist ... the list goes on and on. His extraordinary curiosity, his love for the small and the great, and his tremendous feeling and concern for his surroundings and all that they included, set him traveling the lands and the waters of the world, a messenger in search of meaning. He touched and inspired many along the way, some of whom are to be found in the pages of this book. A true man of his time, Sir Laurens was born in 1906 in the interior of South Africa, served in the British forces during World War II, including three-and-a-half years in Japanese captivity, and lived and worked since that time in London, where he died just after celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 1996. The Rock Rabbit and The Rainbow was originally conceived as a Festschrift, or gift collection of writings, for Sir Laurens by several of his friends and then evolved into its present form, which includes numerous original contributions by Sir Laurens himself.