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"Laurens van der Post must, at the age of seventy-five, have had as interesting a life as any man alive ... [This is] a richly complicated book which has the great virtue of almost everything Sir Laurens has written: it is impossible to put down. One can quite easily read it as an adventure/travel story, another glimpse into a most extraordinary life, ignoring the various themes which the author cleverly weaves into a philosophical argument. But nobody , I should imaging, will put down the book without feeling himself - however incorrectly - a wiser man ... There is nobody alive in whose company I would sooner spend five hours." Auberton Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph, Britain.