In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa.
Laurens van der Post was born in Africa in 1906. Most of his adult life was spent his time divided between Africa and England. His professions of writer and farmer were interrupted by ten years in the army, behind enemy lines in Abyssinia, the Western Desert and the Far East where he was taken prisoner by the Japanese while commanding a small guerrilla unit. He went straight from prison back to active service in Java. He was awarded the CBE for his services in the field.
The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958) and The Heart of the Hunter
(1961)...are loathed by San scholars and serious ethnologists. But
they matter. Van der Post gave a face and a story to a discarded
people before anyone else thought to do so.
*Guardian*
A master storyteller, he had the knack of identifying the
significant, poetical image
*Sunday Times*
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