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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20020901
Author:Matt Steinglass
TELLER OF MANY TALES
The Lives of Laurens van der Post
By J. D. F. Jones
Carroll & Graf. $28.
Had you set out to lead the most fascinating life in the 20th century, you could not have done much better than Laurens van der Post.
Born into a large family in South Africa, he fought with the British in Ethiopia and Java, and spent four heroic years in a Japanese POW camp. (A film, the David Bowie vehicle "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence," was based on his prison-camp stories.)
He was a junior member of the Bloomsbury group, counted E.M. Forster and Cecil Day-Lewis as friends, and was published by ...
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