Laurens van der Post

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996. Famous 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of state, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist.

Selected works

Works mentioned in the article. For an extensive complete list see External links.

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• In a Province, 1934
• Venture to the Interior, 1952
• Flamingo Feather, 1955
• The Lost World of the Kalahari, 1958 (BBC 6-part TV series, 1956)
• The Heart of the Hunter, 1961
• The Seed and the Sower, 1963
• A Journey into Russia, 1964 (US title: A View of All the Russias)
• The Night of the New Moon, August 6, 1945... Hiroshima, 1970 (US title: The Prisoner and the Bomb)
• Jung and the Story of Our Time, 1975
• Yet Being Someone Other, 1982
• The Admiral's Baby, 1996