Kon-Tiki
across the Pacific by raft
First Skyhorse Publishing edition.
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Contributions
- Lyon, F. H. (Francis Hamilton), 1885- translator - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL37749983M
- ISBN-139781629146744
- ISBN-101629146749
- OCLC Control Number869772851
- OCLC Control Numberkontikiacrosspac0000heye_e6h7
Description
"'Am going to cross Pacific on 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 courageous and inquisitive adventurers came to seek a dangerous path in order to test a hypothetical theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs, named 'Kon-Tiki' in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and his five comrades set out, risking their lives to prove that ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a raft similar to theirs. Every page of Kon-Tiki--from the building of the raft and the dangerous adventures at sea, to a spectacular crash landing and the dances of the native islanders--chronicles of a true-life, spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century"--Cover, p. 4.
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