Her enthusiasm and energy are matched only by her penetrating intuition and her skill at negotiation. My agent, Miss Anne McDermid, has been a model critic and adviser at all stages. Clarke of Ceylon, this book might not have found the motive force to carry it through many dreary years of research. Without the stimulus and early encouragement of Arthur C. He has helped and encouraged my efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery for years, and supplied me with invaluable materials, including the typescript of an English translation of Le Renard Pale by the anthropologists Griaule and Dieterlen, which enabled me to bring my survey up to date. This book would never have been written without the material concerning the Dogon having been brought to my attention by Arthur M. The latter gave meticulous attention to details which few people would trouble to do with another's work.
Two friends who read the book at an early stage and took extreme pains to be helpful, and devoted much of their time to writing out or explaining to me at length their lists of specific suggestions, are Adrian Berry of the London Telegraph, and Michael Scott of Tangier. The Sirius Mystery Robert Temple ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My first thanks must go to my wife, Olivia, who has been an excellent proofreader and collater and who made the greatest number of helpful suggestions concerning the manuscript.
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