The KonTiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys and Simon Kuestenmacher
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Survival, Travel, and History.
KonTiki is the record of an astonishing adventure a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, KonTiki. He decided to prove his t...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Survival, Travel, and History.
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Simon Kuestenmacher
“Map of the journey the KonTiki raft took in 1947. An amazing story summarized beautifully y by Thor Heyerdahl in his 1948 (1950 in English) book: A book is too long Here is the Wikipedia link: | The KonTiki is a gloriously reckless, carefree, madcap adventure yarn. A bunch of blokes who cannot swim build a balsa wood raft and launch out into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove a halfbaked theory about migration patterns. I love this book.”
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