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  • The Night Of The New Moon

    by Sir 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. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Seed and the Sower

    by Sir 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. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Far Off Place

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    The whole of A Far- Off Place is charged with the power and magic and beauty of Africa. Driven with appalling violence from his home by "freedom fighters" Fran�ois Joubert, a boy about to become a man, who is deeply learned in the life and ways of the bush, embarks on a long and terrible journey. He is accompanied by Nonnie, the young daughter of a retired colonial governor, murdered by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Voice of the Thunder

    by Sir 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, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Story Like The Wind

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it.The main character is a boy who has a relationship with this Africa not unlike Kipling's Kim with the antique world of India. Fran�ois Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa three hundred years ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Flamingo Feather

    by Sir 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, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Lost World Of The Kalahari

    With 'The Great and the Little Memory'

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of their ancient heritage provide captivating reading and a unique insight into a forgotten way of life. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Yet Being Someone Other

    by Sir 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. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Heart Of The Hunter

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    In this moving sequel to The Lost World of the Kalahari van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. The Heart of the Hunter is a journey into the mind and spirit of the Bushmen, a people outlawed by the advance of blacks and whites alike. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Mantis Carol

    by Sir Laurens Van Der Post ...
    Presented together now for the first time, Laurens van der Post's collected writings will reveal as never before the fullness of his perceptive, wise and remarkably consistent vision. In all of them his inspiration has been that of an adventurous pioneer exploring not just the outward aspects of a turbulent and troubled world but, at a deeper level, the patterns and paradoxes of human life, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Feather Fall

    An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post

    by Sir 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, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Journey Into Russia

    by Sir 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. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD