The Happy Island Author:Bengt Danielsson, F. H. Lyon (Translator) Danielsson was an anthropologist and a crew member and the only Swede on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. He arrived there rather dramatically when its craft crashed on the atoll of Raroia in Polynesia. He later decided to live there with his wife from 1949 to 1952. He is considered one of the leading ... more »experts on Polynesia.« less