![]() ![]() ![]() They must survive at sea for quite some time, which they find is rather easy to do. They travel from South America to the islands in the South Seas (they aim for whichever one they can safely land on, given the cumbersome raft and the sharp reefs). This is a classic adventure tale of six men at sea. You couldn’t pay most people enough to take such a voyage. The raft had no motor and was mostly subject to the ocean currents. He set out to prove that this hypothesis could be true by building an ancient-style raft out of balsa wood and rope. This nonfiction piece follows Thor Heyerdahl, who hypothesized that humans from the east populated the islands in the South Seas, pointing to evidence from mythology, history, and even biology. When I gave my dad a copy of Life of Pi to read, he recommended I read Kon-Tiki, noting that it is a typical survival-at-sea story that may have helped inspire Martel’s Life of Pi.Īfter reading it, I do think my dad is right. ![]()
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