Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl
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Author: Thor HeyerdahlEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); Norwegian (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-07-22
ISBN: 0006550339
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Flamingo
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Book Review: Amazing journey
Summary: 5 Stars
Besides being an excellent explorer, the author is an excellent story-teller. He start his narration telling the difficulties of having his studies accepted by scholars. They doubt his theory on the South American natives being the ones to populate the Polynesian islands, because they thought it was impossible for them to reach the islands using just a small raft.
That triggered the desire for the author to prove himself right. He started looking for ways of doing this travel, finding crew and financial resources. After solving the financial problems through the sponsor of people from the explorer's club in New York, he start traveling multiple times to Washington to get licenses and approval for using military food and he find his first travelmate, Herman Watzinger. They are joined by Knut Haugland, Bengt E.Danielssen, Erik Hesselberg and Torstein Raaby. The book describes this incredible and marvelous journey taken by six people (five Norwegians and one Sweden) through the Pacific Ocean. Some photos taken by the author are presented in the book. This book shows how much courage those guys needed to have to expose themselves to the wind, the rain, the lack of comfort, and the risk of death just to prove a theory.
This book is more than just a traveller's journal. It is a masterpiece and it should be in the permanent library of any serious reader.
Summary of Kon-Tiki Expedition
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.World Books
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