SHELF LIFE
The Kon Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
‘I fell in love with my father’s dusty fat copy of when I was ten or eleven, and the way kids today read Harry Potter till the spine comes apart, I read it over and over and over, tirelessly, exhaustively, night after night, month after month. Descriptions of violent storms at sea and shoals of fish leaping onto the raft are still with me half a century later. Although I
