Word: raft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tiki. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a raft (TIME, April...
...Graner gushes about "the daring man they said would never come back alive" and how he "threw himself at the mercy of the Pacific." An adventure, as every adventurer knows, is adventurous only in the retelling; and nothing can be so downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange...
...Tild. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a raft (TiME, April...
...Tiki. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a raft (TIME, April...
...picture the nightmarish excitement of their strange underwater battlefield. Even above the surface, the simple techniques of the frogmen going into action are dramatically detailed: at a rhythmic signal, each man flops out of a destroyer's speeding launch, flattens for a moment on a small rubber raft fastened alongside, then peels off into the sea as the next signal sends another man on to the skimming raft in his place. Below the surface, in a weirdly lighted world of coral, fish and man-made barriers, the frogmen reconnoiter the defenses of a Pacific invasion beach while others...