Unclear Sailing: The Adventure of Knowing
Exploring the Puzzle of Polynesia. Reviewing ‘Sea People’ by Christina Thompson
When I was young, I remember a book on my grandpa’s shelves, Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl. I shelved a dozen more when I later worked at a used bookshop. It turns out everyone had a copy. Something like ten million copies in languages galore have sold since its publication in 1948.
Kon-Tiki is a riveting true story of a rudderless raft adrift on the Pacif…
