The Ra Expeditions

Heyerdahl Thor

Published by Flamingo, softcover, illustrated.

'A wonderful book of adventure.' Daily Mirror
In The Ra Expeditions, the bestselling author of The Kon-Tiki Expedition relates another tale of breathtaking sea-going adventure. In 1969 Thor Heyerdahl embarked from Morocco on a perilous voyage – this time in Ra, a boat made of papyrus – to test the theory that the earliest people of the Mediterranean world could have crossed the Atlantic and set up communities from Mexico to Peru.

The Ra Expeditions is the riveting, nail-biting account of this Herculean detective mystery that tested Heyerdahl and his men to the limit in their bid to prove his theory beyond doubt.

'Fantastic! How else can one describe Thor Heyerdahl's double achievement?... Like all great discoverers and experimenters, he is as concerned with the why and the how as he is with the adventures of the doing. This is what makes The Ra Expeditions so fascinating.'