Thor Heyerdahl
Kon-Tiki Expedition
Hardcover
(Rand McNally & Company Jan. 1, 1950)
, 1st Edition
Adventure classic His goal was to prove a new theory of polynesian genealogy. in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time Heyerdahl argued that the advances he carried on the trip were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1950. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo.
- ISBN
- 0049100122 / 9780049100121
- Pages
- 263
- Weight
- 12.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.4 x 5.7 in.
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