“Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a
theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? …Reply
at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous
path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa
logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Heyerdahl and five
companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians
could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar
craft.
(Summary from Goodreads.com)
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