heyerdahl, thor

Translation of: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen. The classic true adventure of crossing the Pacific by raft.

Documents the experiences of anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and his crew over the course of a more than one hundred day voyage in 1947 across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa wood raft built according South America's pre-Columbian Indians.

Relates the story of Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl's efforts to prove that Polynesians were of Incan descent by building and successfully sailing from Peru to French Polynesia a raft he made by using materials and processes available to the ancient Incas.

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

A brief biography of the Norwegian explorer who attempted to prove several theories about migration of peoples through his voyages.

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.

A biography of the Norwegian scientist and adventurer who undertook a journey across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa raft to prove the possibility of his theory that the Pacific islands had been populated by Indians from South America.

The story of Heyerdahl and his wife's first Pacific adventure in 1936. Fatu-Hiva lay outside the shipping lanes; there were no white inhabitants and no contact with the outside world.

Text and photographs provide an account of the voyage from Peru to Polynesia made by Thor Heyerdahl and his crew on a balsa wood raft in 1947 in an attempt to test certain theories about the migration of ancient peoples.