Yet Being Someone Other [Import] [Paperback]

Laurens Van Der Post (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; First edition & printing in this form edition (1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140067981
• ISBN-13: 978-0140067989
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,051,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Glimpse Into a Lost World, April 24, 2010

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Ila France Porcher "author of My Sunset Rende... - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yet being someone other (Hardcover)

Laurens van der Post takes the reader back to a lost world of marine beauty in South Africa, where drifts of seabirds filled the skies and whales were so plentiful that no one could imagine they could ever be decimated.

He describes what it was like, for him as a boy, to work on a whaling ship, and recounts many startling stories of the tales told then about marine life, which one never hears of today.

Battles between giant squid and sperm whales, giant squid witnessed pulling over a small ship, the psychological play between the whaling captain and the sea, and many more thought-provoking situations, are all described in this author's unique and insightful style.

It is a jewel of a book and well worth reading, if only to learn what it was like on the sea a hundred years ago and more.