Witness History: Archive 2011 - The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

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In 1947 a Norwegian adventurer sailed across the Pacific on a wooden raft.

Thor Heyerdahl had built the raft using only materials available to Americans before Columbus arrived on the continent.

His son and his biographer talk about that extraordinary journey.

Photo: Kon-Tiki Museum

Published on Thursday, 4th August 2011.

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