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Odysseyof adventure\n\nKVTON-TIKI is the story of a great exploit that rivals anything toA be found in world literature.It is the account of six youngmen,risking their lives daily for months on a primitive raft drift-ing across the Pacific-not in bravado,but in order to prove ascientific theory.\"From start to finish,\"says John Marquand,“itwas a Stone-Age voyage,far less modern in atmosphere than thetravels of Ulysses..:Jules Verne could hardly have done better.He could never have invented all that happened on that raft.\"  \n[Regular Retail Price:$4.o₀]*PRICE TO MEMBERS:$3.60  \nEditorial Board:HENRY SEIDEI,CANBY,Chairman·DoROTHY CANFIELDCLIFTON FADIMAN·JoHN P.MARQUAND·CHRISTOPHER MORLEY  \nAdrift IoI days across the Pacifc—to solve an ancient mysteryof migration  \nR E PO R TB Y WIL L I A M[   S O S KI N  \nT STARTED with the dream of a young man who listened to thelegends of an old Polynesian native,as they sat on the sands ofthe Marquesas Islands in the South Seas.They were stories ofthe sun god who had founded the Polynesian race in the StoneAge.The dream grew into a reality when the young man under-took to follow the course of that ancient god,Kon-Tiki,to setout from Peru and cross the lonely vastness of the Pacific on a drift-ing raft,to place himself at the mercy of the great Equatorial cur-rents and the storms of the world's most treacherous ocean.And itbecame,through the daring of Thor Heyerdahl and his com-panions,a story that will take its place beside Lawrence's SevenPillars of Wisdom,Robert Scott's journal of his tragic Polar expe-dition,and Doughty's Arabia Deserta,as one of the masterpiecesof adventure in the world's literature.  \nThe sheer factual content of Heyerdah's story and that of hisfive bearded,naked young companions who,with no knowledge ofseamanship and only the stars and their own faith to guide them,set out in a little sieve of a raft made of a few balsa logs and somerope,battled with mountainous seas that poured 10,000 tons ofwater aboard their tiny craft every twenty-four hours,steered thetrembling Kon-Tiki through 4300 miles of the deep Pacific whilethey often stood up to their waists in water,stared into the fearfulmouths of giant whales,fed man-eating sharks by hand,and metuntold dangers with unfailing good humor-all this is in itself thesubstance of a great Odyssey.  \nBut the special enchantment of this book lies in the fact that itsauthor is an artist,as well as an adventurous scientist.Like theclassics of adventure,his fabulous facts are touched with the per-  \nA THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE,THE ANCIENT PERUVIANSHAD SAILED RAFTS;HEYERDAHL AND HIS CREW,BYTRIAL AND ERROR,REVIVED THAT PRIMITIVE SKILL  \nsonal magic of the born story-teller.Lawrence's account of theArabian revolt against the Turks is imbued with the mystic person-ality of the author.Scott's Antarctic journal has the stature of quiettragedy.In Kon-Tiki the personality we meet is that of a fresh,light-hearted,healthy son of the Vikings,whose 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