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Ra - kaislaveneellä yli Atlantin by Thor Heyerdahl

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After reading Kon-Tiki, I was hungry for similar kinds of accounts, so when The Ra Expeditions came out, I snapped it up. I enjoyed it, but not quite as much as Kon-Tiki. The first hundred pages were considerably more dry, basically describing his research into reed boats. Somehow it wasn't as fascinating as the research he described in . Nonetheless, it held my attention, and satisfied (for a time) my itch to know more about the ancient world and travel. It also stoked the fire of my dreams about someday traveling the world, which (three decades later) I have done to some degree, though not in the adventure-like fashion of Thor Heyerdahl.