Kon – Tiki

Kon – Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft. This is a documentary writing describing science adventure. The author finds some clues which indicates that the first residents on the islands floating across South America in 5th century, according to historical remains, folk tales, wind directions and tides when he did researches on Polynesia in The Pacific. But the civilization of South America in that days is the Stone Age, rafts were the only marine vehicle, no boats. So many scientists disagreed for the simplest reason: human beings cannot cross The Pacific on rafts safely. Heyerdahl believed he was right, raft can help you cross The Pacific. In order to confirm his theory, he smoothed away many difficulties, with five companions, made a raft totally according to ancient Indian style and went to sea from Peru in April, 1947. They went through various hardships in life, won terrifying waves, encountered many horrible dangers, also interesting places. Three months later, after crossing more than four thousand nautical miles, they arrived Polynesia. As to Kon-Tiki, it is a human name, also the name of a God, who is the leader of the first group arriving Polynesia according the legends. Heyerdahl named their raft after it as well.