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Señor Kon-Tiki
Author | : Arnold Jacoby |
Publisher | : London : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Anthropologists |
ISBN | : |
Señor Kon-Tiki
Author | : Arnold Jacoby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Viaje por la Polinesia y América del Sur. Viaje por la Polinesia y América del Sur.
Kon-Tiki
Author | : Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1632200171 |
“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “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, Thor 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. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. 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.
A Hero for the Atomic Age
Author | : Axel Andersson |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
ISBN | : 9781906165314 |
Nomination for Best Foreign Film at the 2013 Academy Awards In English and many other languages the name 'Kon-Tiki' has become a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 101-day raft journey, Heyerdahl emerged as the protagonist in a legend that helped to create a new postwar West. A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses, for the first time, the problematic nature of Heyerdahl's theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world's great civilizations.
The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki
Author | : Deborah Kogan Ray |
Publisher | : Triangle Interactive, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2018-03-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1684447097 |
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph—this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the South Pacific via raft, why he wanted to re-create the voyage, and how he planned for it. She uses primary-source quotations on each spread to shore up the factual history of the events portrayed in the book. Her illustrations add emotion to this harrowing journey. From the Hardcover edition.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Author | : Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Easter Island |
ISBN | : |
To prove that the Polynesians came from South America, the author and his friends crossed the Pacific on a raft copied from the Incas.
Kon-Tiki Man
Author | : Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books (CA) |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A fascinating, lavishly-illustrated biography of the explorer- adventurer-anthropologist who in 1947 voyaged on a balsawood raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to the Polynesian islands. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR