About the book: 2001 / "In Search of Paradise" is the first book by the famous Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. On the Marquesas Islands, he first encounters stone sculptures and slabs with mysterious drawings, and his interest in the mystery of the settlement of Polynesia arises. The enormous material collected by the scientist over ten years leads him to the conviction that there were connections between South America and Polynesia in ancient times. To confirm his theory, Thor Heyerdahl and five comrades set off on a dangerous voyage on a balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia. The famous traveler described his adventures in the fascinating book “Kon-Tiki Expedition”».