Early Life and Family
Heyerdahl was born in the mountains of British Columbia and is of Norwegian and Scottish descent. Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin.
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“And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:25.
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