As a child, reading books about Columbus, Magellan, Krusenstern and Miklouho-Maclay, I was terribly worried that it is absolutely impossible to become a great traveler today, because there are no white spots left on Earth at all ... Then, when I got caught ...

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Even as a child, reading books about Columbus, Magellan, Krusenstern and Miklouho-Maclay, I was terribly worried that it is absolutely impossible to become a great traveler today, because there are no white spots left on Earth at all ...

Then, when I came across “Journey to Kon-Tiki” and “Aku-Aku”, I read them with exactly the same thoughts: after all, it was all terribly long ago ... It just didn’t fit in my head that we live with the great Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl at the same time on the same land!

Not anymore.

The most famous Norwegian in the world, the last adventurer, great traveler, ethnographer, navigator, historian, philosopher, archaeologist, director of the museum named after himself, writer, honorary doctor of several dozen universities, a descendant of the Vikings, Thor Heyerdahl today is already sailing on his funeral drakkar to Valhalla on a meeting with Odin, Freya and other great aces, in the real existence of which he had so passionately believed for the past few years.

Developing his latest hypothesis, Tur repeatedly visited Russia, and less than a year ago we met with him in Azov. According to him, the ancestors of the Swedes and Norwegians came to the Scandinavian peninsula on foot from the territory of present-day Russia two thousand years ago.

Scientists from all Scandinavian countries argued with this theory, salivating, but he only smiled and calmly said that over the past 60 years, all his ideas were perceived this way at first: the opportunity to cross the Pacific Ocean on a raft, and the ancient connection between Africa and America, and the artificial origin of the pyramid hills in Tenerife...

Thor Heyerdahl proved with his whole life that humanity is one, and the planet Earth is much smaller than we think, and therefore it needs to be very protected ...