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Heyerdahl’s later voyages. I put on a warm jacket and stepped inside to see them. I
pulled a strip of negatives out at random and held it to the light. It was a row of
black-and-white images of Lorita, the Kon-Tiki’s pet parrot. She fell overboard and
was eaten by a shark, and became the only casualty of a daring and inspiring venture
across the Pacific Ocean.