Laurens van der Post
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South African writer (1906–1996)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1906-12-13
- Died
- 1996-12-16
- Works
- 58
Top works
- [Kalahari expedition in search of Bushmen in Bechuanaland, August-October, 1955]
- Recipes: African cooking
- Lost World of the Kalaha
- Heart of the Hunter
- Venture to the Interior
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
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- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
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- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,614x
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Quotes
- “We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of the intellect in its place.”
- “Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side.”
- “It is the not-yet in the now,The taste of fruit that does not-yet existHanging the blossom on the bough.”
- “Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.”
- “There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living: a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.”
- “Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into the final ocean of one hemisphere, rising to its full height in the graying skies of the other; head and shoulders broad, square and enduring, making light of the bagful of blue Mediterranean slung over its back as it marches patiently through time.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Philippolis
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- farmer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Knight Bachelor
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- British Army
- Military rank
- colonel
- Image
- Sir Laurens van Der Post (cropped).jpg
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- end of work period
- 1996-00-00
- Commons category
- Laurens van der Post
- date of birth
- 1906-12-13
- date of death
- 1966-12-16
- start of work period
- 1934-00-00
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- relative
- William, Prince of Wales
- name in native language
- Laurens van der Post
- writing language
- English language
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