A Story Like The Wind by Laurens Van der Post Softcover Book

Title: A Story Like The Wind by Laurens Van der Post Softcover Book.
Author: Laurens Van der Post.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: 1978 Harcourt Brace.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace.
Year First Published: 1972.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Printed in USA.
Page Count: 370 pages.
Width: 13.5cm
Height: 20.0cm
Thickness: 2.3cm
Info: This is a story of an almost vanished Africa; a world of myth and magic in which the indigenous peoples of the continent lived for uncountable centuries before the Europeans came to shatter it.
The main character is a boy who has a relationship with this Africa not unlike Kipling's Kim with the antique world of India. François Joubert, whose Huguenot ancestors settled in Africa three hundred years ago, lives as a solitary child on his father's farm. 'Hunter's Drift'. Here, in the far interior of Africa, he experiences the wonder and mystery of an ageless, natural primitive life, his perception of it heightened by the influence of three people in particular - his Bushman nurse, the head herdsman of the local Matabele clan (his father's chosen partners in the pioneering of Hunter's Drift), and a hunter of legendary fame, now the chief ranger of a vast game reserve nearby.
François' meeting with an untamed Bushman, Xhabbo, whose intuitive teaching nourishes his spirit; his strange pilgrimage to the distant krall of a powerful witch-doctor; his dramatic encounter and relationship with the daughter of a retired colonial governor; all are examples of African point and European counterpoint, in a highly original theme, moving to a strangely presaged and omened climax.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Previous owners name on the front papers.  No other inscriptions or notations, a very good clean copy.
Price: R 175.00 Inc Vat.