conservationist movement, to setting up a centre of Jungian studies in Cape Town. A Walk with a White Bushman (1986), the transcript of a series of interviews, gives a taste of his appeal as a conversationalist. In 1996, he tried to prevent the eviction of the Bushmen from their homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, which had been set up for that purpose, but ironically it was his work in the 1950s to promote the land for cattle ranching that led to their eventual removal. In October 1996, he published The Admiral's Baby, describing the events in Java at the end of the war. His 90th birthday celebration was spread over five days in Colorado, with a "this is your life"-type event with friends from every period of his life. A few days later, on 15 December 1996, after whispering in Afrikaans "die sterre" (the stars), he died. The funeral took place on 20 December in London, attended by Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, and many friends and family. His ashes were buried in a special memorial garden at Philippolis on 4 April 1998. Ingaret died five months after him on 5 May 1997. Posthumous controversy After Sir Laurens' death a number of writers questioned the accuracy of his claims about his life. His reputation as a "modern sage" and "guru" was questioned, and journalists published examples of embellishment of the truth in his memoirs and travel books. J. D. F. Jones, in his authorised biography Teller of Many Tales: The Lives of Laurens van der Post (2001), claimed that van der Post was "a fraud, a fantasist, a liar, a serial adulterer and a paternalist. He falsified his Army record and inflated his own importance at every possible opportunity." A rebuttal was published by Christopher Booker (van der Post's ODNB biographer and friend) in The Spectator. Selected works For a complete list see External links. In a Province; novel (1934; reprinted 1953). Venture to the Interior; travel (1952). The Face Beside the Fire; novel (1953). A Bar of Shadow; novella (1954). Flamingo Feather; novel (1955). The Dark Eye in Africa; politics, psychology (1955). The Lost World of the Kalahari; travel (1958) [BBC 6-part TV series, 1956]. The Heart of the Hunter; travel, folklore (1961). The Seed and the Sower; three novellas (1963). A Journey into Russia (US title: A View of All the Russias); travel