"I am so sure that the Indians sailed across the Pacific Ocean in rafts that I am willing to build one myself and sail across the sea just to prove that it is possible."
On April 28, 1947, Thor Heyerdahl, an inveterate zoologist and adventurer, set sail with five friends on a lonely journey across the Pacific Ocean to convince doubters that the South American Indians were capable of it. They sailed alone but with great determination on a balsa raft in the middle of the ocean. A readable testimony of life at sea without modern equipment, but with great understanding and humility towards the ocean and former Indian sailors.
