Thor Heyerdahl: This man was my hero when I was a teenager. "He was a world renowned explorer and archaeologist." He was fascinated by the origins of the Polynesian race and culture, and set out to prove that the first immigrants to Polynesia came from Peru on balsa rafts via the North Pacific conveyor (an ocean current). For more information about Thor Heyerdahl, please see this web site: http://www.greatdreams.com/thor.htm