The lost world of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post, First Edition, Third Impression

The lost world of the Kalahari, Laurens van der Post, First Edition 1958, Third impression

The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack from all the peoples who followed them, the last of the Bushmen have retreated to the scorching depths of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. After a gruelling trek, van der Post finds the Bushmen, thriving in one of the world’s most inhospitable landscapes, with their physical peculiarities, their cave art and their joyful music-making intact.

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 government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist.

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Details

• Hardcover without dust-jacket
• Condition: Acceptable
• Publisher: The Hogarth Press London
• First Edition, third impression, 1950