On ApHeyerdahl had set out from the coast of Peru, cutting through the waves aboard Kon-Tiki, a simple raft made from balsa wood logs, based on drawings made by Spanish conquistadors, and begun a long, strange journey that would grip the world. you are suddenly astonished, and ask yourself how in the world it came about?"Ĭonsidering that, at the time, he was adrift in the Pacific on a raft with five men and a parrot, it wasn't a strange question to be asking. (CNN) - "Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation," wrote Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific by Raft. Group sought to prove people from South America could have colonized Polynesia.Heyerdahl was joined on 1947 expedition by small group of scientists.
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