The rock rabbit and the rainbow : Laurens van der Post among friends

Editor's foreword - Robert Hinshaw. Introduction - A word from Laurens van der Post. God's spies - Kathleen Raine. A synchronicity out of space - Laurens van der Post. Marking time - Laurens van der Post. An African tale - Frances Baruch. A triad of landscapes - T.C. Robertson. Heavenly ingredients - Lady Susan Wood. My friend Nkunzimalanga - Ian Player. A friendship of the stars - Jean-Marc Pottiez. The white lilac and the sailor - Captain Katsue Mori. Goodbye snail, hello mantis! - Satoko Akiyama. The hearts of leopards, the mind of stars - Nagisa Oshima. Because right is right - Charles Janson. Quo vadis, Helvetia? - Dieter Baumann. Prejudice as self-rejection - Vernon Brooks. A small word - John Charlton. Reflecting upon yet being someone other - Lawrence Hughes. A letter from Rosamond - Rosamond Lehmann. A threesome of friends - Jessica Douglas-Home. A lesson from war - William Pitt Root. On becoming - Harry A. Wilmer. An Australian tribute to Laurens van der Post - Edward Dunlop. The splendor of the sun - Joseph L. Henderson. A letter to Laurens about a painting - C.A. Meier. How to be haveable - Alan McGlashan. Laurens' sonata - Joseph B. Wheelwright. The house - Carolyn Grant Fay. On Laurens and film-making - Jonathan Stedall. Filming with Laurens van der Post - Paul Bellinger. Friendship and film - Eva Monley. Hasten slowly - Richard Osler. A peal of bells - Peter Ammann. Rainbow rhapsody - Jean-Marc Pottiez. A royal bouillabaisse - Laurens van der Post. Crying on the wind - Jane Taylor. A last look at a first encounter - Aniela Jaffe. Jung and the stone - Frances Baruch. A sort of freedom - Ray Parkin. A pattern of meeting - Robert Schwartz. The turning of tides - Pamela Uschuk. To the memory of Thomas Chalmers Robertson - Laurens van der Post. What would Smuts have done? - T.C. Robertson. World without as world within - M. Vera Buhrmann. The lark ascending - Robin Page. Our mother earth - Laurens van der Post. The dreamer that remains - Laurens van der Post. A pattern of synchronicities - Laurens van der Post. A confession of faith - Laurens van der Post. Laudatio for Sir Laurens van der Post - Theodor Abt. Postscript:. Memorial service address for Laurens van der Post - Lawrence Hughes. Last words - Mangosuthu Buthalezi. Last words - Nelson Mandela

'The Rock Rabbit and The Rainbow was originally conceived as a Festschrift, or gift collection of writings, for Sir Laurens by several of his friends and then evolved into its present form, which includes numerous original contributions by Sir Laurens himself.'

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