Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

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Now a big motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage around the Pacific.

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure—a journey of 4,300 nautical miles around the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He determined to turn out his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage.

On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months at the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land—the Polynesian island of Puka Puka.

Translated into sixty-five languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage—a magnificent saga of guys against the ocean.

This edition features a foreword by the writer and a novel visual essay of the voyage.

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