About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time

Van Der Post, Laurens

ISBN 10: 0156026058 / ISBN 13: 9780156026055

Published by Harcourt on Demand, 1993

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Condition: (see pics.) The paperback is in a very good, clean and tight condition. Synopsis: Sir Laurens, whose life has encompassed African expeditions and years as a Japanese POW, recalls events-some joyful, some tragic-and in so doing provides the framework for an exploration into the human spirit.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: About Blady: A Pattern Out of Time
• Publisher: Harcourt on Demand
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156026058
• ISBN 13: 9780156026055
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Sir Laurens, whose life has encompassed African expeditions and years as a Japanese POW, recalls events-some joyful, some tragic-and in so doing provides the framework for an exploration into the human spirit.

About the Author

The extraordinary life of Laurens van der Post is not easily capsulized. Author of of many books, farmer, soldier, prisoner of war, political adviser to British heads of state, educator, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist are titles that barely indicate the depth and breadth of this rare individual. Born in 1906 in the interior of southern Africa, he lived among the people who created the first blueprint for life on earth, becoming the principal chronicler of the Stone Age Kalahari Bushmen. He was also one of C.G. Jung's closest friends for sixteen years. Van der Post dedicated his life to teaching the meaning and value of indigenous cultures in the modern world, a world he felt is in danger of losing its spiritual identity to technology, prejudice, empty values, and a lack of understanding of the interconnectedness of all life on earth. Awarded a knighthood (the C.B.E.) in 1981, Sir Laurens died after his 90th birthday, in December, 1996.

He has written the following books:
A Far Off Place
The Heart of the Hunter‎
A Story Like the Wind