Great bedtime reading

The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Thor Heyerdahl

The story of six young men crossing the Pacific on a balsa wood raft (with a sail). Is a true story.

Amazing.

Yep, read the book when I was like 10 years old in 1960 and then bought the balsa wood model and put it together (actually lashed it together) for bath time!

I read it about 6 mths ago for the first time. It's been in the bookcase for 30 odd years and I've always said 'one day I'll get around to reading that '. Well I finally did and you are right it is amazing.

Thank god times have changed, especially when they harpooned a whale shark because they didn't know what it was. They were just scared stiff that kept circling them preparing to come in for the kill (so they thought).

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Don't take life too seriously................it ain't permanent.

I really liked "Kon-Tiki" decades ago. If you enjoy reading maritime yarns, check out "Under the Red Sea Sun" by Commander Edward Ellsberg. Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Red_Sea_Sun

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Mitch

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One of my favorite books from childhood. Probably read it a dozen times. Always loved the pictures in the middle. There is a movie on Netflix.

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