‘The Kon-Tiki Expedition’ by Thor Heyerdahl
February 23, 2014
Sometimes the most interesting conversations I have with politicians aren’t about politics at all. Recently I got talking to the Labour MP for Wrexham, Ian Lucas, abut the Norwegian anthropologist-adventurer Thor Heyerdahl. Ian had bought a second-hand copy of Heyerdahl’s account of his famous attempt in 1947 to cross the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft … More ‘The Kon-Tiki Expedition’ by Thor Heyerdahl