[AnAmericanMother]

I re-read Kon-Tiki every so often. What a grand adventure for a bunch of WWII vets at loose ends! And backed by the old New York Explorers' Club, a bunch of wild men if ever there were any.

Have you read his later book about their explorations on Easter Island, Aku-Aku? The stories about their crawling into the family caves absolutely made my hair stand on end (I HATE low dark places.)

[Restorer]

Read it too.

There's another book, name slips my mind, about how he and his wife pulled a pre-hippy stunt and went to live on a Polynesian island to get "back to nature." This was back before the war.

They found out it was a lot more fun in theory than in reality.