Languages:English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media:Paperback Edition:First Thus Pages:304 Number Of Items:1 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.8 Dimensions (in):8.2 x 5.6 x 1
ISBN:1602397953 EAN:9781602397958 ASIN:1602397953
Publication Date:March 1, 2010 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
“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. 80 b&w illustrations
