Testament bushmen van der

 Testament to the Bushmen - Van der Post & Taylor - Viking 1984 - Hard cover with dust cover in good, clean and tight condition. Describes the Bushmen traditions and culture, looks at the routines of their daily life, and explains why their nomadic existence is threatened.

 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.  

  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.  

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

Hardebande in mooi toestand. Geen datums binne. Karl May's Reisavonturen. Tussen 350 en 400 bladsye elk. Naam in ink voorin elkeen. R85 posgeld in SA. Het Testament van den Inca. Door het land der Skipetaren. De Kara-Nirwan-Khan in Albanie. Winnetou het opperhoofd der Apachen. In Koerdistan. De Slavenkaravan. In de schuilhoeken van den Balkan. Van Bagdad na Stamboel.