![]() He recruited four Norwegian academics (a navigator and artist, two radio experts, an engineer) and a Swedish sociologist to join him in building and sailing a raft with only the materials and technologies that would have been available to the Peruvians in the 15th Century. Heyerdahl had come to believe that people had traveled west by sea from Peru to settle Polynesia during the pre-Columbian Era (prior to the late 15th and 16th Centuries). Lyon) was published by Rand McNally in 1950 with the sub-title Across the Pacific by Raft. He first published his account of the 1947 journey in a 1948 Norwegian book The Kon-Tiki Expedition. Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist who espoused the theory and organized the expedition which he led. The story captured the imagination of people all over the world in the mid-20th century. Kon-Tiki is the amazing story of an expedition of six men who sailed a primitive raft 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean in order to prove a theory that the Polynesian Islands were settled by explorers from South America. ![]()
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