The Lost World of the Kalahari

...This novel was the basis for the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) directed by Nagisa Oshima. After the war, he conducted several expeditions to Nyasaland (now Malawi) and the Kalahari Desert at the behest of the British government, and wrote accounts of his expeditions, such as Journey to the Outback (1951) and The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), which depicted the extinction of the San. His novels include A Face by the Fireplace (1953), which depicts South Africans in London, and Flamingo Feathers (1955), which depicts life in South Africa during the war, as well as a trilogy, The Seed and the Sower (1963), the first of which is In the Prison of Shadows. ...

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…この小説は大島渚監督の映画《戦場のメリークリスマス》(1983)の原作である。戦後はイギリス政府の命により，ニヤサランド(現，マラウィ)やカラハリ砂漠などへ数度にわたる探検を行い，それをもとに《奥地への旅》(1951)や絶滅にするサンを描いた《カラハリの失われた世界The Lost World of the Kalahari》(1958)などの探検記を著した。小説には，ロンドンの南アフリカ人を扱った《暖炉のそばの顔》(1953)，戦中の南アフリカ生活を描いた《フラミンゴの羽根》(1955)などのほか，《影の獄にて》を第1部とする三部作《種と種まく人The Seed and the Sower》(1963)などがある。…

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