Kon-Tiki
Subtitle: across the Pacific by raft
By: by Thor Heyerdahl ; translated by F.H. Lyon ; introduction by Steven Callahan
Contributors: Lyon, F. H. (Francis Hamilton), 1885- translator
Edition: First Skyhorse Publishing edition.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781629146744
Subjects: Ethnology; Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen (1947); Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen. fast (OCoLC)fst01405210
Work titles: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen
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.
Notes: Includes index.

Translated from the Norwegian.
Table of contents: title: A theory; title: An expedition is born; title: To South America; title: Across the Pacific; title: Halfway; title: To the South Sea islands; title: Among Polynesians.