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In 1982 he fell and injured his back and used the downtime from tennis and skiing to write an autobiography called Yet Being Someone Other ( 1982 ), which discussed his love of the sea and his journey to Japan with Plomer in 1926.

( His affection for that country and its people, despite his wartime experiences, had first been explored in 1968 in his Portrait of Japan.

) By now Ingaret was slipping into senility, and he spent much time with Frances Baruch, an old friend.

In 1984 his son John ( who had gone on to be an engineer in London ) died, and van der Post spent time with his youngest daughter Lucia and her family.