Yet being someone other - Hardcover

Van Der Post, Laurens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688018432 ISBN 13: 9780688018436

Publisher: Morrow, 1983

Synopsis

"Laurens van der Post must, at the age of seventy-five, have had as interesting a life as any man alive ... [This is] a richly complicated book which has the great virtue of almost everything Sir Laurens has written: it is impossible to put down. One can quite easily read it as an adventure/travel story, another glimpse into a most extraordinary life, ignoring the various themes which the author cleverly weaves into a philosophical argument. But nobody , I should imaging, will put down the book without feeling himself - however incorrectly - a wiser man ... There is nobody alive in whose company I would sooner spend five hours." Auberton Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph, Britain.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“ Yet Being Someone Other is undoubtedly the most unusual and unplaceable of all the dozen or more books Sir Laurens has written. Like most of them it is heavily autobiographical; but as one would expect from Sir Laurens, it is also much more than that - a kind of prolonged meditation on the part played in his life and that of the post-Renaissance modern world by ships and the sea.” – Christopher Booker, The Times

From the Inside Flap:

The most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life; it is a distillation of the experiences that have moved him at the deepest level of the imagination and made him the exceptional person and writer he was.


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About this edition

• Publisher: Morrow
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0688018432
• ISBN 13: 9780688018436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352