Laurens Van der Post Livres

With the rescue of a Bushman from a horrible death, life at Hunter’s Drift changes dramatically for Francois. His subsequent secret friendship with the outcast Xhabbo; the strange pilgrimage to the distant kraal of uLangalibalela, the greatest of all witchdoctors; and his extraordinary encounter and relationship with Luciana Monckton are interwoven with the magnificent and mysterious happenings in the African bush. Highlighting the conflicts between the African and European cultures, the story gathers pace and culminates in a strangely-omened climax.

Continues the previous work of this author 'A story like the wind', but is self-contained, and can be read as a story on its own

In this sequel to "The Lost World of the Kalahari", Laurens van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and the lore of Africa's first inhabitants.

An account of a journey on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of Central Africa. Adventure, discovery, and tragedy teem in this famous account of a trek into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud veiled uplands of Nyika.

While her crew of South Africans and Norwegians await their next expedition, the whaling ship "Kurt Hansen" is moored in Port Natal. Her grave silent captain is Thor Larsen, a man whose dedication and skill in killing the sperm whale is beyond question.

Filmed as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence starring David Bowie & Tom Conti. This is war as experienced in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Java in 1942. It's the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of the terrible violence & hardship strange bonds of love & friendship are forged between the prisoners & their jailers. Christmas Eve: A bar of shadow Christmas morning: The morning after A brother The initiation The growth of nothing "The day far spent" The sowing of the seed Christmas night: The sword & the doll

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.

(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')