Publisher's Synopsis
 
The book does not disclose just what the 'Venture' was about; it was clearly an unusual and expensive way of obtaining for the Colonial Office such information as could be gathered in two short journeys off the beaten track and you may wonder why Alan McBean, Boyd, Quillan,  Vance or Dowler were not sent to get it, as they were on the spot.  Maybe Col. Van der Post is really a mining engineer in disguise; and bauxite certainly exists on Mlanje.  Or perhaps it was not the Colonial Office at all but one of the new Government Corporations- they certainly have a fine romantic way of going about the business undeterred by cost.   It matters not at all anyhow; what matters is that Col. Van der Post went on his venture and made this delightful book out of his going.  Col. Van der Post, who brings to his task the inherited wisdom and understanding of generations of Christian civilisation lived in Africa, sees with the eyes of the prophet into the heart of the contemporary world and has written of what he says there with great force and beauty of expression.  It is indeed, a Venture to the Interior, to the interior of life, of human opportunity and destiny; it is wonderful entertainmen,t but it is much more than that and worthy of all men to be received.
Sir Philip Mitchell 
(in the Broadsheet)
 
The Reprint Society Ltd.; 1953. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Dust cover has shelf wear to top and bottom- small portions missing to top and bottom of spine. Corners bumped and rubbed. White end papers slight signs of foxing. B/w picture of author as frontispiece. Binding tight and text clean. Preowned. No ISBN.