The Long Voyage
AN SERRAILLIER’S Ballad of KonTiki is a welcome indication that as long as there are heroes we'll produce poets to celebrate them. This was a fine, stirring piece of work, recreating the exuberance of the voyage and of the six who made it, blessed with sinewy imagery and a strong vein of humour, as in the delightful patter song of the Peruvian Minister of Marine (with its refrain about Signing on the Dotted Line), My only criticism is in the deference accorded the god Kon-Tiki, the weight given his repeated pronouncement that he has guided the Kon-Tiki as he guided the islanders’ forefathers
from Peru to Polynesia 15 centuries ago. | After all, this was originally @ schools | broadcast-and are we being quite fair to Dr. Roger Duff and his boys of old West-East brigade? But then one: can_ scarcely expect a balladeer to be sternly |
non-partisan.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 11
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150The Long Voyage New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 11
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