About Blady : a pattern out of time

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About Blady : a pattern out of time

Laurens van der Post

Penguin, 1993

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Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1991

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An autobiographical memoir from Laurens Van Der Post, which touches on many of the deepest human issues. This book tells the story of a horse rescued from labour to become a champion showjumper, mirroring an incident in Sir Laurence's own childhood. From it he knits together reflections on dreams, mythology, the primoridal links between humans and horses, the innate role of the feminine, and the creative potential of suffering. The result is a book which confronts the lack of human spirituality in our time and conveys a message of hard-won but vibrant optimism. The author also wrote "Yet Being Someone Other", "Lost World of the Kalahari", "Venture to the Interior", "Far-Off Place" and "Story Like the Wind".

Table of Contents

  • Floating things
  • "f" and "f"
  • the great uprooter
  • bird of the wind
  • horse-man
  • the horse woman
  • fiesta
  • the race.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA19776943
  • ISBN
    • 014016992X
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    255 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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