An Amazing Journey of Adventure and Discovery.
In 1998 and 1999 legendary explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell led one of the most ambitious expeditions since Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. It was an epic journey that spanned a continent and tested the skill of his hand-picked team.
Intrigued first of all by the idea that Plato's Atlantis might have been on a vast Bolivian plain high in the Andes, then fascinated by the notion that pre-Inca people and their trade goods might have found their way down central South America's massive rivers to the Atlantic and even across it, Blashford-Snell commissioned a fleet of traditional reed boats - the largest named "Kota Mama" - and set off to retrace their journey.
John Blashford-Snell and Richard Snailham recount their amazing story of adventure and discovery, of lost civilisations and little-known archaeological sites, and of seventy-five people whose combined efforts ensured the success of the Kota Mama expedition.
