Laurens van der

 Storyteller The many lives of Laurens van der Post  - 2001 - 509pp, black and white photographs - Soft cover in good, clean and tight condition. When he died in 1996, Laurens Van der Post had won renown in an astounding range of roles: as war hero, writer, explorer, mystic, environmentalist, Jungian, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and friend and confidant of the great - famously including both Mrs Thatcher and Prince Charles. He seemed to be one of the most remarkable men the 20th century had produced. His conversation influenced thousands, his ideas millions. But he discouraged biographers in his lifetime on the grounds that in his many books he had told his story himself.;After his death doubts soon began to spread, however, as to whether this story presented a true picture. Was his knowledge of the Kalahari Bushmen, as extensive as he led us to believe, and did the Bushman stories he so loved to tell come mainly from books? His standing as some kind of secular saint certainly suffered with the emergence of an illegitimate daughter whose mother he had seduced when she was 15. And his claim to have effectively brokered the Lancaster House agreement on Zimbabwean independence was deflated by those who had actually been there. Nor was that all.;Sir Laurens's famly authorized this biography, giving J.D.F. Jones exclusive access to the Van der Post papers and allowing him complete freedom. A completely different man from that portrayed by the media is presented. This biography looks behind the facade that Sir Laurens so skilfully created and suggests that he became to some extent a prisoner of it. The love he inspired was genuine, but the account of his life that he presented was in the end just another of his wonderful stories.

 Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens Van Der Post: J.D.F. Jones (Hardcover)   When he died in 1996, Laurens van der Post was a celebrated polymath: war-hero, writer, explorer, mystic, Jungian, behind-the-scenes diplomat and sage to Mrs Thatcher and Prince Charles. He was a secular saint. After this biography, Post should be most famous for one skill: storytelling. His books and stories (of the bushmen of the Kalahari, of his friendship with Jung, of his diplomatic importance) may be inspiring. They are also largely fabricated. Jones' account reveals Post as enchanting, ambiguous, inspiring, complex, misleading, sometime admirable, sometimes risable - and sometimes as a shockingly culpable fabulist and liar.  

  Author(s): Laurens van der Post  Title:      Jung and the Story of Our Time  ISBN:  0 14 004509 0  Publisher/place: Penguin, London  This Edition: Penguin edition of 1976, 10th printing  Year of Publication:  not indicated for this printing  First Published: 1976 (The Hogarth Press, London)  Binding: paperback Number of pages:  275  Weight: 208g  Condition:   Cover has some very minor scuffing on the front, otherwise in very good condition  Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.    

A Bar Of Shadow - By Laurens Van Der Post Second Impression, Hard Cover, Published By The Hogarth Press 1973 Cover Boards Pink With Gold Writing To The Spine, Has Browning To The Edges. Binding Tight & Strong. Small Sticker Inside The Front Cover Board. Browning & Foxing Of Pages. Dust Jacket Complete, Has Rubbing To The Edges, Browning & Foxing Throughout, Staining To The Edges, Has Been Price Clipped. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R30.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote.

The Hunter And The Whale - By Laurens Van Der Post First Edition, Hard Cover, Published By The Hogarth Press 1967 Cover Boards Are Brown With Gold Text To The Spine, Clean & Bright. Binding Tight & Strong. Small Inscription On The Front Flyleaf In Blue Pen. Browning & Foxing Of Pages. Dust Jacket Complete, Has Insect Damage To The Edges & Foxing To The Inlays, Has Not Been Price Clipped. Postage Within South Africa Will Be R40.00 Overseas Buyers Can Contact Us For A Postal Quote.

  Author(s): Laurens van der Post  Title:      The Heart of the Hunter  ISBN: 0 14 00 2236 8  Publisher:  Penguin  This Edition: Penguin edition of 1965, reprinted in 1983  Place Of Publication: Great Britain First Published: 1961 (The Hogarth Press)  Binding: paperback Number of pages: 231 Weight: 185g  Condition:   Cover has some very minor scuffing, otherwise good   

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Author(s): Laurens van der Post  Title:       Flamingo  Feather - A Story of Africa  ISBN: n/a  Publisher: The Hogarth Press  This Edition: first  Year of Publication: 1955  Place Of Publication: Great Britain Binding: hardcover  Dustjacket: none/missing  Number of pages: 320 Weight: 381g  Condition: Ex-library book, has stamps etc.  Book in fair condition, binding sound.  Very good reading copy 

  2001. Hard cover with dust cover. Good condition. Small rust marks on front end-paper. Parcel over 1kg.   When he died in 1996, Laurens van der Post was a celebrated polymath: war-hero, writer, explorer, mystic, Jungian, behind-the-scenes diplomat, and sage to Mrs Thatcher and Prince Charles. He was a secular saint. After J.D.F. Jones's authorised biography, he will be most famous for one skill: storytelling. His books and stories - of the bushmen of the Kalahari, of his friendship with Jung, of his diplomatic importance - may be inspiring. They are also largely fabricated.  

  Author(s): Laurens van der Post  Title:      Flamingo Feather   - A Story of Africa  ISBN:  0 14 00 2338 0  Publisher/place: Penguin, Middlesex  This Edition:  Penguin edition of 1965, 4th printing  Year of Publication: 1978 First Published: 1955 (The Hogarth Press)   Binding: paperback Number of pages:  303  Weight: 160g  Condition:   Has some sellotape stains on inside of cover, otherwise good    Please see pictures, as these form part of the description.    

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A story of Africa, the Bushmen and the terriosts and the awful indescriminate violence they brought with them and inflicted on the innocent peoples. dust jacket in good condition Edition: 1st, UK edition Publisher: Hogarth Press Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0 7012 0386 2

HARD COVER EX LIBRARY BOOK WITH DUST JACKET. THE BINDING IS SOMEWHAT LOOSE AND THE FIRST PAGE IS FIXED WITH CELLOTAPE. THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK IS FINE.  

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Hardcover. English. Hogarth Press. 1982 3rd impr. ISBN: 0701219009. 352pp. Good condition in edgeworn dw. 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. Book No: 2001849

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