It is from this slice of life that his obsession to demonstrate the settlement pattern of these islands was born. From this episode of his life, he drew the story "American Indians in The South Pacific" published after the war. He returned home on the eve of the Second World War. Born in 1914, after a childhood spent skiing and exploring nature in Norway, Thor Heyerdahl moved to Polynesia in Fatu Hiva in 1936, accompanied by his young wife. What did these men come here to do, more than 18,000 km from home on this raft?Īt the head of this crew, the explorer Thor Heyerdahl. On board, a Norwegian team, mainly composed of former Norwegian resistance fighters, tough as nails, passed through SOE (Special Operations Executives - British Foreign Secret Service during the Second World War) with a smile on their face. On April 28, 1947, a steam tug sailed from the port of Lima in Peru, towing a strange raft about fifteen metres long.
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