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Sixty years ago, on April 28, 1947, Norwegian biologist Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members embarked from Peru on their daring voyage to the Marquesas Islands, on a balsa wood raft which was built according to the traditions of South America’s pre-Columbian Indians. The Kon Tiki expedition, as it became known, was hailed as […]

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