Sometimes reality is more interesting than any imagined story!

One cool highlight from this book is that they tried to create the raft as similar as possible to those used by ancient civilizations. A lot of naval experts gave the raft no chance of crossing the Atlantic. But it turned out that all the things they mimicked from history books were crucial in keeping the raft adrift. For me this showed that we can easily misjudge the value and importance of old traditions and customs.