![]() ![]() Wristwatches conveniently accompanied all daring exploits since they replaced pocket watches at the behest of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont in 1904. Only it was real, and occurred in 1947, not 1747. Wind-lashed sails, fearless men struggling with the crude rigging, the mighty waves – it was Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels rolled into one. More than a half-century later, I can still picture the gold cover of Pocket Books US paperback edition of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki.Īnd I wasn’t even particularly drawn to tales of the sea: it was the ineffable sense of adventure and achievement that had such pull, especially as all one heard about back then was space travel. Rider Haggard, it was a no-brainer: I just had to read the book with the promise of such excitement in its pages. A mere 72 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s legendary Kon-Tiki voyage, Revolution looks back at the Eterna watches that crossed the Pacific with this brave team of Norwegian pioneers.įor a nine-year-old boy, addicted to Jules Verne and H. ![]()
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