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The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

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

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Sun 7 Aug 2011 23:50GMT

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