The science of psychedelic experience

CARLETON S. COON,distinguished physical anthropologisl and author of the highly successful STORY OF MAN, gives a fresh and penetrating analysis of what we know about the origins and significance of race and the human species. Dr. Coon, curator of ethnology at the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania since 1948, has written a new book, THE SEVEN CAVES, published early this year by Knopf.

Nearly forty years ago, NORA WALN, a young Quaker, passed through the battle lines of the warlords on her way to Mongolia, where, at the behest of a Swedish publisher, she wrote her first book, about Frans August Larson, Duke of Mongolia. Subsequently, in China, where she wrote her famous narrative THE HOUSE OF EXILE,and still later, in Hiller’s Germany, where she gathered the source material for REACHING FOR THE STARS, she traveled unafraid. This is the latest of her adventures, carried out after Khrushchev had built the Wall.