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Kon tiki across the pacific in a raft pdf epub download. Dec 24, 20 on a primitive raft made of fortyfoot balsa logs and named kontiki in honor of a legendary sun king, heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient peruvians could have made the 4,300mile voyage to the polynesian islands on a similar craft. After 101 days at sea the kontiki ran aground on a coral reef by the raroia atoll in polynesia. Read kontiki online by thor heyerdahl books free 30day trial. Kon tiki across the pacific by raft thor heyerdahl. 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, kontiki.
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Across the pacific by raft and in a documentary the following year that won the academy award. Across the pacific by raft by thor heyerdahl, 1950. The expedition had been an unconditional success, and thor heyerdahl and his crew had demonstrated that south american peoples could in fact have journeyed to the islands of the south pacific by balsa raft. That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. The first edition of the novel was published in 1948, and was written by thor heyerdahl.
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