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What a ripping good yarn!
When I was a boy back in the late 1950s / early 60s Thor Heyerdahl was a household name. Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer who had sailed across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in a balsa wood raft to prove that people from South America could have settled Polynesia 1,500 years ago. As you can see from the photographs of his raft Kon-Tiki below this was a remarkable feat. The 5,000 mile journey, which he undertook in 1947, took him and his five companions 101 days.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, 66 years later they’ve made an adventure film about the expedition and it is well worth watching.
Nigel.
When I was a boy back in the late 1950s / early 60s Thor Heyerdahl was a household name. Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer who had sailed across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in a balsa wood raft to prove that people from South America could have settled Polynesia 1,500 years ago. As you can see from the photographs of his raft Kon-Tiki below this was a remarkable feat. The 5,000 mile journey, which he undertook in 1947, took him and his five companions 101 days.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, 66 years later they’ve made an adventure film about the expedition and it is well worth watching.
Nigel.
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