From the get-go, anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, the expedition’s charismatic ... In Heyerdahl’s 1950 Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft—a lively chronicle that sold more than 50 million ...

(CNN)-- "Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation," wrote Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl in Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific by Raft. "You get into it by degrees... [Then] you are ...

with this already mythical expedition, that this hypothesis was possible. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl sailed a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days to prove his theory ...

The cost of the expedition, the need to gratify sponsors ... He built a balsa-log raft, the Kon-Tiki, and in one of the great ocean adventures of the 20th century, he and his small crew made ...

On April 28, 1947, a six-man expedition set out from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to the Polynesian Islands. Utahns have had a ...