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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged by a lifetime of vast experiences and challenges.


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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099429869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Laurens van der Post was a long-time friend of Jung and here presents Jung as he knew him: Jung the man, the discoverer and explorer of a new dimension in the human spirit, rather than Jung the psychologist.


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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this moving sequel to The Lost World of the Kalahari van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. The Heart of the Hunter is a journey into the mind and spirit of the Bushmen, a people outlawed by the advance of blacks and whites alike.


(Paperback)

By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners - and their gaolers. In a battle for survival that becomes a battle of contrasting wills and philosophies as the intensity of the men's relationships develop.


(Paperback)

By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Adventure, discovery, and tragedy teem in this famous account into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud walled uplands of Myika.


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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099429852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.


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By: Sir Laurens Van Der Post

ISBN: 9780099428756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life.