Amsterdam

Rare book

Jan den Hengst (1934) went to horticultural college in Boskoop and later emigrated to Zimbabwe, Rhodesia at the time. There he got into arable farming and landscape architecture. He returned to Europe in the sixties and took up photography in Cologne. He has been working as a freelancer ever since. As well as providing photography for several publications, Hengst has written and illustrated his own book, The Dodo, the Bird That Drew the Short Straw. Jacques Constant started his career as a newspaper and magazine journalist in Holland and the Dutch West Indies. He now devotes most of his time to writing and editing books. He has had work published under the names Jac G Constant and Jacques G Constant.