L’ideale

“In 1947, Norwegian archaeologist and anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl travelled 8,000km from Peru to the Polynesian islands on a boat emulating prehistoric designs. His mission was to prove that the original inhabitants of such faraway lands could have migrated from South America. He went on to carry out myriad other experiments in ancient travel from Morocco to South America, and Iraq to Djibouti seeking to better understand routes of cultural exchange.”

“…Heyerdahl believed that ancient cultures’ understanding of the ocean remained a far "truer one than ours”.

When it rains, even the giraffe leave the dune woodlands for the mineral-rich grasses on the riverbed.

“Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a third-hand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for seven years, in an unexplored area with no roads, no people, and no source of water for thousands of square miles. In this vast wilderness they met animals that had never seen humans before. They would wake in the morning to find lions sleeping beside them; leopards, giraffes, and brown hyenas were regular visitors to the camp. But the Kalahari isn’t Eden, and Mark and Delia Owens were continually confronted with danger- from drought, fire, violent storms, and even from the animals they loved.”