Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian...
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The Seed and the Sower is a book by South African writer Laurens van der Post, consisting of three interrelated stories blended into a novel, first published...
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was a crucial figure in his life. A close acquaintance of both, Laurens van der Post, stated: "In this unfamiliar terrifying underground of the collective...
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Routledge. "Laurens van der Post". Retrieved 2 December 2007. Jones, J.D.F. (2001). Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post. Da Capo Press...
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produced by Jeremy Thomas. The film is based on the experiences of Sir Laurens van der Post (portrayed by Tom Conti as Lt. Col. John Lawrence) as a prisoner...
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and Kalahari) is a 1993 American adventure drama film based on Laurens van der Post's works A Far Off Place (1974) and its predecessor, A Story Like the...
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medicine men or healers involved in a healing dance. Gall writes, "The Laurens van der Post panel at Tsodilo is one of the most famous rock paintings." High...
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In 1929, she met the writer William Plomer CBE and through him, Laurens van der Post. She published two novels, The Buried Stream (1929) and Under the...
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highlights his reliance on the writings of the South African novelist Sir Laurens van der Post and the work of the anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. In...
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literature pioneered in the 1920s by Roy Campbell, William Plomer, and Laurens van der Post. The Sestigers sought to elevate Afrikaans as a literary language...
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