![]() ![]() They reported nearly daily encounters with dolphins and sharks (and they were not above using the former as bait to snare the latter), and, very conveniently, would awake each morning to find flying fish lying on deck, ready for breakfast. There are no major shipping lanes through the South Pacific, so you can imagine that their presence was something of a novelty for the creatures around them. Their encounters with marine life are my favourite parts of the story. The journey lasted nearly three months before they successfully came aground on the Raroia reef of French Polynesia, having covered a distance of nearly 7000 km. This sail was their sole means of motion they set to sea dependent entirely to “the wind that blows where it will” - in more ways than one, one is tempted to say. Their craft was constructed from nine large balsa trunks lashed together with rope, with a small cabin and a sail above. This book relates the true story of how, in the late 1940s, six Norwegians sailed a balsa-wood raft across the South Pacific, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands. Thor Heyerdahl (George Allen & Unwin, 1950) ![]() The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas ![]()
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