When the Brits were to receive the Japanese surrender in Java, now Indonesia, the imprisoned Dutch descendants of the colonizing Dutch East India Company wanted to go back to "their" property. The ... Read More
Great adult/youn adult book about a thirteen year old boy, only child growing up in the central African bush under the influence of Bantu, Bushmen, Heugenot French and British and South African ... Read More
Van Der Post has a lot to say about the nature of war itself and the need to really understand each nation and its culture. In his view the Japanese who imprisoned him cruelly became men of honor and ... Read More
