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Feather Fall

An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Feather Fall

An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post

By: Laurens Van Der Post

This Van Der Post 'reader', thematically organised to reflect the patterns and themes which have influenced his life and his writing, distils the essence of the writer, thinker, spiritual guru and man of action. This evocative and thought-provoking selection, combining short paragraphs and longer passages is chosen with love and insight from his published and some unpublished writings, (books, introductions, lectures, essays, ) and will give pleasure and inspiration to generations of readers the world over.

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Random House

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1448191467

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9781448191468

The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow

Laurens Van Der Post Among Friends

By: Laurens Van der Post

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The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow

Laurens Van Der Post Among Friends

By: Laurens Van der Post

Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide 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 travelling 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.

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402

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Daimon

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3856305408

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9783856305406

Yet Being Someone Other

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Yet Being Someone Other

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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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1407073249

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9781407073248

The Rock Rabbit and the Rainbow

Laurens Van Der Post Among Friends

By: Laurens Van der Post

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Laurens Van Der Post Among Friends

By: Laurens Van der Post

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Feather Fall

An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Flamingo Feather

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Flamingo Feather

By: Laurens Van Der Post

Flamingo Feather, which Laurens van der Post dedicated to the 'fast vanishing Africa' of his boyhood, is a story of adventure - adventure unfolded in the great tradition of story-telling. It is the tale of two white hunters - one old, experienced and wise, one young and resolute - who suspect that something evil is being prepared on a vast scale in their country and who, with little to guide them, set out to track down its source. In the unfolding of their story, the immense scene of bush, forest, jungle, lake and mountain, the untamed wildlife and vivid animal beings, and the background mind and culture of the indigenous people in all their archaic reality, are evoked as never before. Indeed so deeply does the story draw on Laurens van der Post's knowledge of the country, so directly does it touch on vital elements in African life, that it carries the conviction of an authentic personal experience. Africa itself lies at the heart of the story, Africa as it has been and as it may yet become.

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370

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Random House

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1407073001

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9781407073002

A Story Like the Wind

By: Laurens Van der Post

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A Story Like the Wind

By: Laurens Van der Post

Reprint of the ed. published by Morrow, New York.

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388

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156852616

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9780156852616

A Far Off Place

By: Laurens Van der Post

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A Far Off Place

By: Laurens Van der Post

For Nonnie and Francois, both on the brink of adulthood, a thousand-mile trip across Africa's Kalahari Desert becomes a pilgrimage of self-discovery.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0156301989

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9780156301985

The Seed and the Sower

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Seed and the Sower

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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.

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Random House

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1407073184

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9781407073187

The Hunter And The Whale

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Hunter And The Whale

By: Laurens Van Der Post

This is the story of a South African boy, Peter, who grows to manhood through a hard course of physical and emotional experiences. The scene, a heroic one, is set both on sea and on land. Peter is exposed to the conflicts set up by other characters, chief amongst whom are a dedicated and fanatical whaling captain, a Zulu stoker, a famous white hunter and his daughter. He learns how men can become obsessed by greed and the will to power; and he witnesses the struggle of natural man to come to terms with the demands of contemporary life. Peter's developing relationship with captain and crew; the fury and beauty of the chase; the fanaticism of the two great hunters - these are the leading motifs in Laurens van der Post's stirring narrative. His remarkable knowledge of whaling, and the force of his imagination sounding deeper then leviathan himself, carry the reader irresistibly forwards.

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377

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Random House

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1407073095

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9781407073095

The Night Of The New Moon

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Night Of The New Moon

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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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140707315X

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In A Province

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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In A Province

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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.

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Random House

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1448191475

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9781448191475

Yet Being Someone Other

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Yet Being Someone Other

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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1407073249

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Jung and the Story of Our Time

By: Laurens van der Post

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Jung and the Story of Our Time

By: Laurens van der Post

“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.

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290

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Vintage

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0394721756

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9780394721750

Venture To The Interior

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Venture To The Interior

By: Laurens Van Der Post

Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn't really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot and take a look, please? Venture to the Interior is the account of that journey, a journey filled with adventure and discovery, flying from London across Europe and Africa, and after days in small aircraft, on foot across the mountains to the two lost worlds of central Africa.

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Random House

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1407073214

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9781407073217

Jung and the Story of Our Time

By: Laurens Van der Post

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Jung and the Story of Our Time

By: Laurens Van der Post

Recounts the life and career of the great psychiatrist, C.G.Jung, his conversations with the author, a longtime friend, and the importance of his theories and writings to contemporary humanity.

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Arrow

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0099429861

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9780099429869

The Lost World of the Kalahari

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Lost World of the Kalahari

By: Laurens Van Der Post

It has been established that the earliest humans alive today are the San Bushmen from the Kalahari Desert in Batswana.

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Ishi Press

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4871879518

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9784871879514

The Voice of the Thunder

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Voice of the Thunder

By: Laurens Van Der Post

From the beginning, Lauren Van Der Post has been aware of a dimension in life far longer and more significant than the outer eventfulness of everyday living. His perception of life's mysterious power began with the Bushman, the first people of his native Africa, and grew in the universal imagery of dreams, the fertile legends and stories of ancient civilization, the intuitive teaching of prophets, poets and other pioneers of human awareness. In this book he has brought together two of his most deeply felt and far reaching essays, and has extended their message with great imaginative insight, exploring the potential in all men and women to acquire self-knowledge and to live life according to its fundamental precepts.

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197

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Random House

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1448191491

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9781448191499

Journey Into Russia

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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Journey Into Russia

By: Laurens Van Der Post

Laurens Van Der Post takes us behind the iron curtain of Soviet officialdom in a quest to discover the real Russia - a land full of enigma and secrecy, but treasured by its ordinary people.

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Random House

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1448191483

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9781448191482

A Walk with a White Bushman

By: Laurens Van der Post,Jean-Marc Pottiez

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A Walk with a White Bushman

By: Laurens Van der Post,Jean-Marc Pottiez

The author looks back on the experiences, places, people, and beliefs that have shaped his life

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326

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William Morrow & Company

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068807264X

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9780688072643

The Voice of the Thunder

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Voice of the Thunder

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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The Lost World of the Kalahari

With 'The Great and the Little Memory' a New Epilogue

By: Laurens Van der Post

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The Lost World of the Kalahari

With 'The Great and the Little Memory' a New Epilogue

By: Laurens Van der Post

This book is designed to help MIS and information center managers and their staffs to efficiently and cost effectively meet the needs of end-users in their organizations. Focusing on managerial aspects of information centers, Robert J. Thierauf explores the ways in which new information technology--spreadsheets, query languages, report writers, word processing, etc.--can be placed in the hands of end-users without the interdepartmental conflict and loss of systems control often associated with such transitions.

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261

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Vintage

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0701132957

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9780701132958

A Walk with a White Bushman

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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A Walk with a White Bushman

By: Laurens Van Der Post

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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