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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, ...
Aug 3, 2002 · Laurens van der Post, spellbinding storyteller who died in 1996, sold millions of copies of his novels and nonfiction books; ...
Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post

South African writer and farmer
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. Wikipedia
Born: December 13, 1906, Philippolis, South Africa
Died: December 15, 1996 (age 90 years), London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Ingaret Giffard (m. 1949–1996) and Marjorie Edith Wendt (m. 1928–1949)

Feb 3, 2001 · Laurens van der Post, revered by Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles, hid the fact he fathered a child with a girl of 14.
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Fascinating character, total charmer, appalling womanizer, disaster as family man, completely unreliable for factual information, writer of purple prose, ...
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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post was a 20th Century South African Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of ...
Books by Laurens Van Der Post · The Lost World Of the Kalahari · Venture To the Interior · A Story Like the Wind · A Far-Off Place · The Heart Of the Hunter ...
Sep 21, 2001 · Laurens van der Post lived a very full and long life. Born in 1906 in an obscure "dorp" (small town) in the Orange Free State, he died in a ...
Top Laurens Van Der Post titles. Page 1 of 10Page 1 of 1. A Story Like the WindA Story Like the Wind · 4.6226 · A Far-Off PlaceA Far-Off Place.
In 1934 he wrote In a Province, the first book by a South African to expose the horrors of racism. Other books include Venture to the Interior (1952), The Heart ...