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A Far Off Place by Laurens Van der Post
Category: Fiction
The story of a long, perilous journey undertaken by four survivors of a massacre: a teenage boy of European descent, a young white girl, and two Bushmen. The basis for a major film release from Walt Disney Pictures.
Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens Van der Post
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
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.
The Heart of the Hunter by Laurens Van der Post
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Vintage classics
The sequel to "The Lost World of the Kalahari" in which Laurens Van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and lore of Africa's first inhabitants. This book journeys into the mind and spirit of the Bushmen, a people outlawed by the advance of the blacks and whites alike.
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens Van der Post
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage classics
In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. "Pass world!: I am the dreamer that remains; The man clear cut against the last horizon." Roy Campbell Laurens van der Pos ...Show more
The Myth of the Goddess - Evolution of an Image by Anne Baring and Jules Cashford; Laurens Van Der Post (foreword by)
Category: History
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and ho ...Show more
The Seed and the Sower by Laurens Van der Post
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 me ...Show more
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