Kon-Tiki
Across the Pacific by Raft
Thor Heyerdahl
ISBN: | 9781602397958 |
Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
Published: | 31 March, 2010 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Kon-Tiki
Across the Pacific by Raft
Thor Heyerdahl
?Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? ?Reply at once." That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named ?Kon-Tiki" in honor of a legendary sun king, Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. On every page of this true chronicle?from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash-landing and the native islanders' hula dances?each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.
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