If you are looking for a different adventure, give this book a try. Today that is a big problem when sailing the oceans. I did note that they saw no garbage and no plastics floating in the water. I was as fascinated with my current reading as I was back in the 1950s. Many times, after reading a book that I had enjoyed, I no longer like it and wonder what I saw in it. This time I was more intrigued with how the raft functioned and how the ancient people of Peru came about to design it in a certain way and why they chose the certain woods they used. The part I liked best was the descriptions of the sea life that came around the raft. The voyage of the Kon-Tiki took place in 1947. The book is well written with lots of photographs. Of course, early on I studied primarily marine sciences and biology. This book is one of the key items that helped me decide on a career in the sciences with secondary interest in archaeology and anthropology. I read this book at least twice a year in the fifties and sixties, but somehow it got put aside.
It was given to me by my mother for my birthday in 1950. The hardcover book I have was published in 1950.
This book is one of the key items that helped me decide on a career in the sc We had a power outage with a winter storm the other day so I looked around my bookshelves and came across a book I was fascinated with many years ago and decided to read it again. We had a power outage with a winter storm the other day so I looked around my bookshelves and came across a book I was fascinated with many years ago and decided to read it again. "Perhaps, Madam, it is because I am your king," Kong Olav replied. Anyway, she broke away from Egil, the boyfriend, and darted up to the old fellow, saying she recognized him, but, sadly, couldn't remember his name. Mom did know the former prime minister, Gro Harlam Brundtland, and once, walking down Karljohan, Oslo' main drag, with her boyfriend, she recognized, but couldn't exactly place, the portly gentleman walking his dogs in front of them-someone from Chicago, she thought. In the parking lot who should be standing there but Thor Heyerdahl himself? Although he was talking to another man, Mother interrupted them as if she knew him to introduce me to the great man as her son. One of them was revisiting the Kon-Tiki Museum there which I hadn't seen since the last time in Oslo at age ten. It was a great trip filled with many memorable events. In 1978, in the summer following seminary graduation, I was invited by mother to visit her in Oslo before moving from New York City back to Chicago. I read it with much familial encouragement at an early age, mostly as a travel adventure, which it is, and not so much with any regard for the scientific hypothesis the author was testing. O Every Norwegian family we knew had a copy of this book on their shelves.
Translated into over sixty languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage - a magnificent saga of men against the sea.moreĮvery Norwegian family we knew had a copy of this book on their shelves. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land - the Polynesian island of Puka Puka. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. 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, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the l Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft.
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