Kon-Tiki is a gloss on a man whose towering ... Skeptics—including National Geographic magazine, which declined to sponsor the expedition—treated Heyerdahl like he was on a dice roll with ...

This story appears in the January 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... even Thor Heyerdahl's famed balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki. But the most striking of Oslo's nautical temples ...

and Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft. My noble specimen, however, is decidedly pre-lumber, and its branches sag with hundreds of blossoms at varying stages of ripeness: the buds that look like giant ...