About Blady

A distinguished writer, explorer, and philosopher analyzes the interconnected twists of fate that led him to expeditions in Africa, to serve against the Japanese in World War II, to develop a close friendship with Carl Jung, and more.
In 1991, five years before he died, South Africa-born writer and amateur ethnographer Sir Laurens van der Post took a long look at his life and the small details that resonated over time. Among the things he recalls in this luminous book of autobiography are a majestic French horse, the Blady of his title; the sound of the ocean as it breaks on the capes of Africa and South America; and a wondrous encounter with a meteor in the Kalahari Desert.