Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post (1906–1996) was a South African writer, officer, explorer, ethnologist and film producer. During the Second World War, he served in the British Army in Abyssinia, North Africa and Indonesia, where he spent four years as a Japanese prisoner of war. After 1949, he took part in expeditions in Africa. His journey to the Kalahari formed the basis of his best-known book and film, “The Lost World of the Kalahari.” He also published works on Japan and Russia, as well as a book about the psychoanalyst C. G. Jung, with whom he was a close friend.