Listener John Haslett recalls his time at sea on a primitive balsa raft off the coast of South America. The Los Angeles resident and his friends built the balsa raft — a massive type of craft made ...

Lima, Peru – Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a Norwegian team is in Peru putting final touches on a new vessel to repeat the journey. “I ...

Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian scientist who gained worldwide fame more than half a century ago when he sailed a primitive balsa-log raft called the Kon-Tiki halfway across the Pacific from Peru to ...

Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnographer, had a radical idea. What if the Polynesian islands were settled by South Americans who'd sailed 5,000 miles west across the Pacific in hand-built rafts ...

Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew arrived in Polynesia after 101 days at sea aboard the Kon-Tiki raft on this day in history, August 7, 1947. Hyderdahl, along with five crewmen (and one ...

Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a Norwegian team is in Peru putting final touches on a new vessel to repeat the journey. “I think we are ...

LIMA, Peru – Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a Norwegian team is in Peru putting final touches on a new vessel to repeat the journey. “I ...

Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian scientist who gained worldwide fame more than a half century ago when he sailed a primitive balsa-log raft called the Kon-Tiki halfway across the Pacific from Peru to ...

Norway's most expensive screen production to date is a visually striking re-creation of Thor Heyerdahl’s daring trip across the Pacific on a primitive raft. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film ...

The raft made from guava branches is the most primitive in Humberto Sanchez’s collection. Resting in his yard, it is just a pile of limbs lashed with frayed rope to two Soviet inner tubes. The single ...

Listener John Haslett recalls his time at sea on a primitive balsa raft off the coast of South America. The Los Angeles resident submits this... Getting Primitive: The Sound of a Balsa Raft Listener ...