Laurens van der Post wrote travel, memoir and spiritualised nature writing about southern Africa, war and what he presented as encounters between modern industrial society and older cultures. The Lost World of the Kalahari recounts an expedition and his interest in San communities, while A Story Like the Wind and A Far-Off Place turn African landscapes and survival into fiction for younger readers. The Seed and the Sower draws on his experience as a prisoner of war in Japanese captivity and later inspired the film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. His prose is reflective, symbolic and often myth-making rather than documentary in a strict modern sense. His work fits travel writing, wartime memoir and African-set literary adventure, with some autobiographical claims best read critically alongside later scholarship. Read more Less
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