Other editions of book Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl, Rand McNally, First Edition, BOOK CLUB Edition, February, 1950. This is a Highly Used, Highly Collectible, Hardcover book. The book is a Turquoise Cloth with an impression of a Polynesian carving on the front cover and gold lettering on the spine. The book is lightly bumped at the corners and along the edges. The book is stained in several places. The inside of the front cover is starting to tear. The previous owners name tag is at the bottom of the title page. A Nice Reading Copy. Six men Cross the Pacific on a Raft made of Balsa Wood Trees and Bamboo. The Book has eighty photographs of the Voyage, Illustrated with maps on the front and rear inside covers.

Thor Heyerdahl, a biologist working in Marquesa, had heard of a mythical Polnesian hero, Kon-Tiki, who had migrated to the islands from the east, perhaps as far away as Peru. Further investigation by the Norwegian scientist led him to believe that the story of he migration of a people across thousands of miles of the Pacific was fact, not a myth. When his colleagues refused to accept his theory, Heyerdahl decided to prove its accuracy by duplicating the legendary voyage, limiting himself to a blasa log raft and taking along other intrepid adventurers. Kon-Tiki is the records of the extraordinary trip, a tale so filled with excitement, suspense, and outrageous daring that it has been called the greatest saga of the sea of our time.