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4 unusual facts about Laurens van der Post


Eileen Naseby

The biography tells the compelling story of her escape from the Nazi regime, her closseted upbringing in Palestine, her love affairs with the adventurer and writer Laurens van der Post and others, and her eventual emigration with the baby Eileen and her new husband Nigel - a gentle idealist - to an outback Queensland dairy farm.

Vance Martin

During this time he met and began to work closely with author/explorer Sir Laurens van der Post and South African, international conservationist Dr. Ian Player.

Willem Barnard

He was also engaged as a Location manager for the well-known TV series "Testament to the Bushmen" (narrator Sir Laurens van der Post, director Paul Bellinger).

William Plomer

He was co-founder of the short-lived literary magazine Voorslag ("Whiplash") with two other South African rebels, Roy Campbell and Laurens van der Post; it promoted a racially equal South Africa.



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