6/29/2023 0 Comments Kon tiki book![]() ![]() Already, he had published his island-living journal, Fatu Hiva, and made a name for himself as a breath of fresh and daring air. ![]() Kon-Tiki was not Thor Heyerdahl’s first book. The possibilities it presented turned worlds upside-down, challenging the very foundations of what most believed to be unshakable facts regarding human history across the continents. What this book ever did for Polynesian (or South American) anthropology in the second half of the 20th century, I’m not certain, but what it did to readers at the time of publication was mind-altering. He and his six-man crew of scientists and educators sailed this craft across the Pacific Ocean, hoping to prove that the original inhabitants of Polynesia may have arrived there from the East, from the Americas, in rafts like the ones he and his team designed. Roughly stated, this book tracks Heyerdahl’s attempts at crafting and sailing a simple raft from Peru to Polynesia. Both my parents had long ago recommended this one to me, but only recently did I finally take the time to read it. Ever since I first caught scent of adventurers’ tales and travelogues back in high school, I have been on the lookout for Time’s greatest hits, written accounts of the most timeless journeys of them all. ![]() Few books have been so long on my to-read list as this, Thor Heyerdah’s epic rafting account, Kon-Tiki. ![]()
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