Laurens Van Der Post has written 27 work(s)
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9781561704453 | Hay House Audio, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.95
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9780688151041 | William Morrow & Co, January 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents the personal story of a World War II POW who stays behind in Indonesia in August 1945 to help preserve peace and ends up overseeing the same Japanese who had held him in captivity and ordered his execution
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9783856305123 | Daimon Verlag, May 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of worldwide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist .
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9783856305406 | Daimon Verlag, May 1, 1996, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of worldwide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist .
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9780933280212 | Reprint edition (Island Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A New York psychoanalyst and a Kalahari Bushman inspire the author to an exploration of primitive consciousness and the modern unconscious and their common promptings and imponderables
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9780688137397 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1994), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss indigenous peoples, Africa, Japan, war, forgiveness, travel, society, artists, love, and the capacity for wonder
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The author of The Heart of the Hunter shares his vision and his manifesto for renewal in the human spirit in this collection of three essays--'The Little Memory,' 'The Great Memory,' and 'The Other Journey.'
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9780688129514 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author of The Heart of the Hunter shares his vision and his manifesto for renewal in the human spirit in this collection of three essays--'The Little Memory,' 'The Great Memory,' and 'The Other Journey.
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9780688114121 | William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A distinguished writer, explorer, and philosopher analyzes the interconnected twists of fate that lead him to expeditions in Africa, to serve against the Japanese in World War II, to develop a close friendship with Carl Jung, and more
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9780156026055 | Reprint edition (Harcourt on Demand, April 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A distinguished writer, explorer, and philosopher analyzes the interconnected twists of fate that led him to expeditions in Africa, to serve against the Japanese in World War II, to develop a close friendship with Carl Jung, and more
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Product Description: An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.
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9780792481867 | Bdd Promotional Book Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $12.98 | About this edition: An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.
9781850890072 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, March 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of the legendary Bushmen, the hunters who pray to the great hunters in the sky.
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9780156537063 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1977, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A detailed study of the vanishing Bushman culture in the Kalahari Desert of southwestern Africa
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9781850897453 | Isis Audio, June 1, 1990, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In moving detail, Van Der Post recounts his search for a primitive group of Bushmen, a once wide-spread people that approached extermination by opposing tribes and Europeans during the last few centuries.
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Product Description: 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
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9780899666570 | Buccaneer Books, June 1, 1990, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break.
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A detailed study of the vanishing Bushman culture in the Kalahari Desert of southwestern Africa
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9780688086084 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 1988, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A detailed study of the vanishing Bushman culture in the Kalahari Desert of southwestern Africa
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Product Description: Adventure, discovery, and tragedy teem in this famous account into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud walled uplands of Myika.
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9781850891574 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 1988), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Adventure, discovery, and tragedy teem in this famous account into the sinister, primeval heights of Mount Mlanje and the cloud walled uplands of Myika.
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9780156935296 | Harcourt, September 1, 1979, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Combines a spiritual odyssey with the author's account of his dangerous journey--part of a British fact-finding mission--through two little-known regions of British Central Africa in 1949
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9780701130435 | Reissue edition (Chatto & Windus, May 1, 1987), cover price $29.95
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The author looks back on the experiences, places, people, and beliefs that have shaped his life
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9780688072643 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, May 1, 1987), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author looks back on the experiences, places, people, and beliefs that have shaped his life
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9780882144054 | Spring Pubns, March 1, 1987, cover price $7.50
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Product Description: To the Frontier is the compelling and vivid account of Geoffrey Moorhouse's three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North-West frontier of Pakistan. From there he reached the closed Khyber Pass and the border with Afghanistan which he was - uniquely - permitted to cross, and scaled the highest peaks of the Hindu Kush...read more
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9781850890621 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, August 1, 1986), cover price $18.50 | About this edition: To the Frontier is the compelling and vivid account of Geoffrey Moorhouse's three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan and the Punjab to the legendary North-West frontier of Pakistan.
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Describes the Bushmen traditions and culture, looks at the routines of their daily life, and explains why their nomadic existence is threatened
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9780140075793 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Describes the Bushmen traditions and culture, looks at the routines of their daily life, and explains why their nomadic existence is threatened
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Product Description: In this sequel to "The Lost World of the Kalahari", Laurens van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and the lore of Africa's first inhabitants.
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9781850890423 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, April 1, 1986), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: In this sequel to "The Lost World of the Kalahari", Laurens van der Post records everything he has learned of the life and the lore of Africa's first inhabitants.
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9780156400039 | Harcourt, August 1, 1980, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author explores the customs, myths, love, spirit, and humor of the African Bushmen
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9780933280250 | Reprint edition (Island Pr, September 1, 1984), cover price $17.95
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9780688025045 | Mti edition (William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1983), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Two old friends recall their experiences during World War II that reflect the love and brotherhood men find in the midst of hardship
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9780156301985 | Mariner Books, November 8, 1978, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Four survivors of a brutal massacre undertake a perilous journey across Africa, crossing a thousand miles of the Kalahari Desert to evade a murderous force of political terrorists
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9780156852616 | Mariner Books, October 1, 1978, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Young Francois Joubert, living in the remote region bordering the Kalahari Desert, thrills to the wonder of the still-primitive land until his idyllic world is shattered by the political violence of contemporary Africa
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9780688033149 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1978, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A blend of personal reminiscence and historical insight seasons a history of Africa through its food, from the antelope of the Bushmen to the pastries of the Cape Colonists
9780708908686 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1977), cover price $29.99
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9780394721750 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1976, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Recounts the life and career of the great psychiatrist, his conversations with the author, a longtime friend, and the importance of his theories and writings to contemporary humanity
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9780913098134 | Myrin Inst, June 1, 1976, cover price $1.50
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