A Walk with a White Bushman: Conversations with Jean-Marc Pottiez - Couverture rigide

Van Der Post, Laurens

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701131683 ISBN 13 : 9780701131685

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1986

Synopsis

Book by LAURENS VAN DER POST

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Laurens van der Post was born in Africa in 1906, the thirteenth of fifteen children in a family of Dutch and French Huguenot origins. Most of his adult life was spent his time divided between Africa and England. His professions of writer and farmer were interrupted by ten years of soldiering in the British Army, serving with distinction in the Western Desert, Abyssinia, Burma and the Far East. Taken prisoner by the Japanese, he was held in captivity for three years before returning to active service as a member of Lord Mountbatten's staff in Indonesia and, later, as Military Attache to the British Minister in Java.

After 1949 he undertook several official missions exploring little-known parts of Africa, and his journey in search of the Bushmen in 1957 formed the basis of his famous documentary film and The Lost World of the Kalahari. Other television films include All Africa Within Us and The Story of Carl Gustav Jung, whom he met after the war and grew to know as a personal friend. In 1934 he wrote In a Provice, the first book by a South African to expose the horrors of racism. Other books include Venture to the Interior (1952), The Heart of the Hunter (1961), and A Walk with a White Bushman (1986). The Seed and the Sower was made into a film under the title Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, and, more recently, A Story Like the Wind and A Far-Off Place were combined and made into the film A Far-Off Place.

Sir Laurens van der Post was awarded the CBE in 1947 and received his knighthood in 1981. He died in 1996.

Revue de presse

"I rank Laurens van der Post with the best writers of English - this book confirms my constant admiration and the nobility of his mind" (Raymond Mortimer Sunday Times)

"Bushmen, Africa, the relation of man to animals (beautiful stories about elephants), Japan and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, the forgiveness of enemies, June, spiritual growth, Churchill, Smuts, Mountbatten... Such a rapid catalogue must omit much of what he talks about, but may give some impression of the book's riches" (The Times)

"A deeply thoughtful, engrossing book about his fascinatingly varied life and unusual ideas... Refreshingly unconventional, inspiring, optimistic, wise and true" (Sunday Express)

"Overflows with ideas and insights gained during a long and eventful life" (Independent)

"No one can write more feelingly of Africa... An experience not to be missed" (Evening Standard)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701131683
• ISBN 13: 9780701131685
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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