I was born in 1946. I recall reading their copy of Heyerdahl's "Kon Tiki", whilst I was still a young boy of maybe seven or eight. The raft was built of logs of balsa, lashed together using twine, which was all that would have been available to the South-American native tribes at that time. The incessant motion of the raft in the sea caused the lashings to cut into the soft balsa, and I recall reading of the crew's repeated efforts to tighten the raft bindings, which progressively became looser as their journey went on.
Same. I was born in 1949 and recall leafing through my parents copy of the Thor Heyerdahl Kon Tiki book, looking at the photographs of huge waves behind the raft and life on board. A great story.
My mother was much more the 'explorer' than was my father. She bought and read the book shortly after it was written...as did I. At the age of 15, in the year 1956 I had a terrifying experice on the ocean, which consisted of a large truck innertube and, although it aready had about a dozen patches on it, it was still leaking slowly. I was caught in a series of huge waves where tons of water crashed down upon me while I desparately clung to the tube, wrapping and locking my arms around it. I finally made it back to shore and have never returned. Now, at age 84, I can look out my computer room window from an elevation of 1100', see the ocean about a mile away....plenty close enough for me!....and, just might prove to still be a bit close if we ever have that large earthquake/tsunami which has long been predicted for CA. Lastly....my 2nd wife and I are scheduled to take a stroll on an isolated beach in a few days.....to revisit the spot where I, 17 years ago, proposed. BHE
There actually was recently found traces of ancient South American Indian DNA concentrated in the Marquesas indicating a small ancient group did settle there. It seems most were wiped out by polynesian settlers coming from Asia. Heyerdahl never denied an Asian ancestry element from Polynesia, and always insisted there were signs of mixing and cultural borrowing. The route he proposed out of Asia though, was via the Northwest coast of the US, an area which also had sea-going craft, from there through Hawaii. The other element from South America, whose seafaring abilities the Kon Tike raft was trying to demonstrate, he proposed brought things like sweet potatoes, bottle gourds, totora reeds, as well as stone work and various cultural items... He never said Polynesians were South Americans, a generalization and lie spread all over...
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I was born in 1946. I recall reading their copy of Heyerdahl's "Kon Tiki", whilst I was still a young boy of maybe seven or eight. The raft was built of logs of balsa, lashed together using twine, which was all that would have been available to the South-American native tribes at that time. The incessant motion of the raft in the sea caused the lashings to cut into the soft balsa, and I recall reading of the crew's repeated efforts to tighten the raft bindings, which progressively became looser as their journey went on.
Same. I was born in 1949 and recall leafing through my parents copy of the Thor Heyerdahl Kon Tiki book, looking at the photographs of huge waves behind the raft and life on board. A great story.
My mother was much more the 'explorer' than was my father. She bought and read the book shortly after it was written...as did I.
At the age of 15, in the year 1956 I had a terrifying experice on the ocean, which consisted of a large truck innertube and, although it aready had about a dozen patches on it, it was still leaking slowly. I was caught in a series of huge waves where tons of water crashed down upon me while I desparately clung to the tube, wrapping and locking my arms around it. I finally made it back to shore and have never returned.
Now, at age 84, I can look out my computer room window from an elevation of 1100', see the ocean about a mile away....plenty close enough for me!....and, just might prove to still be a bit close if we ever have that large earthquake/tsunami which has long been predicted for CA.
Lastly....my 2nd wife and I are scheduled to take a stroll on an isolated beach in a few days.....to revisit the spot where I, 17 years ago, proposed. BHE
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Aku Aku is great read!
There actually was recently found traces of ancient South American Indian DNA concentrated in the Marquesas indicating a small ancient group did settle there. It seems most were wiped out by polynesian settlers coming from Asia. Heyerdahl never denied an Asian ancestry element from Polynesia, and always insisted there were signs of mixing and cultural borrowing. The route he proposed out of Asia though, was via the Northwest coast of the US, an area which also had sea-going craft, from there through Hawaii. The other element from South America, whose seafaring abilities the Kon Tike raft was trying to demonstrate, he proposed brought things like sweet potatoes, bottle gourds, totora reeds, as well as stone work and various cultural items... He never said Polynesians were South Americans, a generalization and lie spread all over...