New and
important books from
VIKING
THE OLD WOMAN,
THE WIFE,
AND THE ARCHER
Three Modern Japanese Short Novels
Translated and with an introduction
by
DONALD KEENE
The artistry and excitement of
Japanese storytelling in three dis–
tinguished stories by contemporary
authors. Each deals with a time
before the Westernization of Japan
and to the reader unacquainted
with Japanese literature-or to one
who knows only the novels of pres–
ent-day life-these stories will
come as a revelation.
$3.95
RIDERS IN THE
CHARIOT
A
novel
by
PATRICK WHITE
The big new novel by the author
of
Voss, Ths Tree of Man,
and
The ' Aunt's Story,
is "without
doubt, the most extraordinary novel
I have read in many years of 'new'
novel reading. • . . Every word a
, masterpiece in its own rich right,
profiting from the techniques of
its ancestry of great novels. . . .
The one word which over and over
again comes to me, the most des–
criptive word about this very great
book-rapture."-LEO LERMAN.
$5.95
THE ISLANDERS
New poems
by
PHILIP BOOTH
The new volume of poetry by the
prize-winning poet (Lamont Award,
Poetry
magazine's Hokin prize,
etc.) is a selection of poems that
examine a single theme-what to
make of a diminished thing. Philip
Booth's islanders are men who sail
offshore to discover what they
hope to be, and who, finding them–
selves, must acknowledge the hu–
man limits by which they will ul–
timately survive.
$3.00
THE CLOUD FOREST
A Chronicle of the South American
Wilderness
by
PETER MATTHIESSEN
The novelist-naturalist author of
Wildlife
in
America, Raditr,er,
etc.,
takes the reader on a fabulous 20,-
000 mile journey through South
America. Filled with observations
on wildlife and a breathtaking ac–
count of a voyage by balsa raft
down a perilous river, this book is
"beautifully told; can be compared
only to the writings of Bates or to
Tomlinson's
The Sea and the Jun–
g/e."- ROGER
T . PETERSON.
I1lus. with maps and more than 40
oj the author's own photographJ.
$6.50
THE VIKING PRESS, New York
2.2.,
N. Y.
