# Quote — Laurens Van Der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari

> This is the story of a journey in a great wasteland and a search for some pure remnant of the unique and almost vanished First People of my native land, the Bushmen of Africa.

- Author: [Laurens Van Der Post](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post.md)
- Book: [The Lost World of the Kalahari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-lost-world-of-the-kalahari.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurens_van_der_Post#The_Lost_World_of_the_Kalahari_(1958)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-lost-world-of-the-kalahari/this-is-the

## More from this book

> Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-lost-world-of-the-kalahari/human-beings-are.md)

> By chance (to use the only phrase we have for describing one of the most significant manifestations of life).

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/the-lost-world-of-the-kalahari/by-chance-to-use.md)