Kon-Tiki

Across the Pacific by Raft

Thor Heyerdahl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2010
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-60239-795-8 (ISBN)

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"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.

Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	1-60239-795-3 / 1602397953
ISBN-13	978-1-60239-795-8 / 9781602397958
Zustand	Neuware