Kon-Tiki : across the Pacific by raft by Heyerdahl, Thor, author, Lyon, F. H. (Francis Hamilton), 1885- translator instant download

Kon-Tiki : across the Pacific by raft by Heyerdahl, Thor, author, Lyon, F. H. (Francis Hamilton), 1885- translator instant download

304 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm, \"'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, Includes index, A theory -- An expedition is born -- To South America -- Across the Pacific -- Halfway -- Across the Pacific -- To the South Sea islands -- Among Polynesians