BRAND NEW & Collectible. First UK Edition, First Thus. One of several authobiographic books Afrikaner, farmer, war hero, journalist and writer Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (1906 - 1996) penned. This volume, the title taken from T.S. Eliot's poem "Little Gidding", recounts his childhood love of the ships and sea, and two voyages made as a young man: the first in a whaling ship whose Norwegian captain greatly influenced his world view, and the second, a journey to Japan in 1926. with Polmer in 1926.A colorful personage in life, and a controversial one in death. A number of writers have questioned the integrity of van der Post memoirs and travel books; one such book is J.D.F. Jones's "Storyteller: The Many Lives of Laurens van der Post" (2001). N° de ref. del artículo 010014

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Título: YET BEING SOMEONE OTHER

Editorial: Hogarth Press, London, UK

Año de publicación: 1982

Encuadernación: Hardcover

Condición: COLLECTIBLE - NEW

Condición de la sobrecubierta: Fine

Edición: First UK Edition, First Thus

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Yet Being Someone Other

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""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 Trade Paperback edition.

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