pacific ocean

The record of a 4,300 nautical mile journey across the Pacific Ocean by raft.

Six scientists risk their lives on a 4,3000 miles journey aboard a primitive raft to test a theory about the origin of the Polynesians.

Text and photographs present some of what is known about the Pacific Ocean, its islands, its people, and its exotic creatures.

Six men on a small raft sail four thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands.

Describes the adventures of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew as they sail across the Pacific on the raft Kon-Tiki in an attempt to prove that the first Polynesian settlers could have come from South America.

Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.

Provides information about the life and accomplishments of eighteenth-century English explorer James Cook, discussing his contributions to geography, his work to improve the treatment of sailors, and his discovery of lands for Britain.

Describes the life of Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.

An overview of the Pacific Ocean that describes its physical characteristics, animal and plant life, historical explorers, and dangers such as tsunamis and typhoons.