A Walk With a White Bushman: Laurens Van Der Post in Conversation With Jean-Marc Pottiez - Hardcover

Van Der Post, Laurens; Pottiez, Jean-Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068807264X ISBN 13: 9780688072643

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1987

Synopsis

The author looks back on the experiences, places, people, and beliefs that have shaped his life

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Van der Post calls Jungian psychology a modern weapon for healing a divided world. Applying it to South Africa, he claims that apartheid is gradually crumbling, strongly opposes economic or political sanctions and urges all parties to stop projecting their "shadows" upon one another. Our age has tilted to a rationalist extreme, the author argues, and collectivist religious cults, "tribal" rock music and feminism ("a form of Amazonian gang warfare") offer no real solutions; individuals and nations alike must "individuate" or develop their unique identities. Growing up in Africa, this world traveler (Venture to the Interior, etc.) was reared by "a Stone Age person," a female Bushman nurse who taught him reverence for life. These intimate conversations cover journeys to Japan, Indonesia and Tibet; friendships with Jung and Yukio Mishima; thoughts on Conrad, the intelligence of elephants, spirit possession in the Kalahari Desert and much else. (July
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From Library Journal:

In a series of conversations with French journalist Pottiez, Van der Postwriter, farmer, soldier, conservationist, and an early opponent of apartheidgives his thoughts about life and people around the world. Politics, literature, philosophy, religion, folk culture, and psychology loom large in this very personal exposition. Although he has been friends with the great on many continents, he alleges the most important person in his life to be a Bushman woman who was his nanny. His main criticism is saved for Western socialists, the United Nations as it currently exists, South African apartheid, and the Soviet Union. Elements of his own spirituality pervade much of this work. An interesting but sporadically organized book best appreciated by Van der Post fans. Roger W. Fromm, Bloomsburg Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib.
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About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 068807264X
• ISBN 13: 9780688072643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326