![]() ![]() I’m ploughing breathlessly through this 1951 edition of ‘The Kon-Tiki Expedition.’ It hasn’t dated badly at all it’s a rattling good read, fast-paced and funny. I’d recalled how much my imagination had been captured as a young boy by a TV programme in the 1970s about this man with (it seemed to me) a funny name and funny-looking boats. 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 called Kon-Tiki. ![]() Recently I got talking to the Labour MP for Wrexham, Ian Lucas, abut the Norwegian anthropologist-adventurer Thor Heyerdahl. Sometimes the most interesting conversations I have with politicians aren’t about politics at all. A plate from the 1951 edition of ‘The Kon-Tiki Expedition’ showing the balsa-wood raft which crossed the Pacific in 1947 ![]()
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