Laurens van der Post (1906–1996)
Författare till The Lost World of the Kalahari
Om författaren
Colonel Laurens Van der Post, a British subject born in South Africa, has "spent most of his adult life with one foot in Africa and one in England." A soldier, explorer, traveler, and philosopher, he fought in World War II in Ethiopia, Syria, and the Far East. Since the war he has worked for the visa mer British government on a variety of missions throughout Africa. Van der Post's beautifully composed Venture to the Interior (1952) is much more than an account of the planned journey from London to Nyasaland in South Africa, the climbing of Mianje, and the exploration of Nyika. It catches the "unique and indefinable spirit of the ancient continent" and explores the interiors of people's minds. His The Heart of the Hunter (1961) points the way toward a rediscovery of the positive values of the wilderness in our own lives. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Laurens van der Post
African Cooking / Recipes: African Cooking 7 exemplar
Lost world of the Kalahari [Motion picture] 3 exemplar
2006 1 exemplar
The Secret River - An African Myth 1 exemplar
Voorslag 1-3 1 exemplar
Man and the Shadow 1 exemplar
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Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Operatie Venus; Flamingoveer; Karen; De eerste trein naar Babylon — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1906-12-13
- Avled
- 1996-12-16
- Begravningsplats
- Philippolis, South Africa (special memorial garden)
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
South Africa - Födelseort
- Philippolis, South Africa (Orange River Colony)
- Dödsort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Durban, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK - Utbildning
- Grey College
- Yrken
- reporter
soldier - Relationer
- Giffard, Ingaret (wife)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Bowes-Lyon, Lilian Helen (lover) - Organisationer
- British Army
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Knight Bachelor (1981)
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1947)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
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