Yet Being Someone Other - Brossura

Van Der Post, Sir Laurens

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ISBN 10: 0099429853 ISBN 13: 9780099429852

Casa editrice: Vintage Classics, 2002

Riassunto

Yet Being Someone Other is the most revealing book that Laurens van der Post wrote about his extraordinary and eventful life, and the most far-reaching; 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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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Vintage Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0099429853
• ISBN 13: 9780099429852
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352