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Thor Heyerdahl
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…
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Thor Heyerdahl,F. H. Lyon
Photographs illustrate the author’s account of his voyage from Peru to Tahiti on a balsa raft to test a theory concerning the origins of the Polynesian race.
Kon Tiki
Join Thor Heyerdahl on an epic adventure across the Pacific Ocean to investigate the enigmatic statues and mysterious history of Easter Island. With beautiful descriptions of the island's natural beauty…
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Robyn Watts
This is the amazing story of the journey of the Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft which sailed and drifted from South America to the Pacific over 101 days and over…
Eric Brown
Deborah Kogan Ray
Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph–this … offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl’s world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed…
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Jette Varmer
Et gammelt sagn fortaeller, at gudekongen Tiki kom sejlende fra Peru til de polynesiske oer - pa en tommerflade! Det er en tur pa 8.000 kilometer tvaers over Stillehavet, og…
Kon-tiki fue el nombre de la balsa utilizada por el explorador noruego Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) en su expedicion de 1947 por el oceano Pacifico desde Sudamerica hasta la Polinesia. El…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
James Marsh
Set in post war 1950’s Britain, the exciting adventures of Davie Collins and the Sundance Gang and their rivalry with the boys from Brimly. This is a book aimed at…
Axel Andersson
A Hero for the Atomic Age
First published in 2010 by Peter Lang, Ltd., International Academic Publishers. –Title page verso.
Maud Fontenoy
Raising the bar after rowing solo across the North Atlantic at the age of twenty-five, the author took on the challenge of crossing the Pacific Ocean just two years later…
A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Thor Heyerdahl, whose career as a zoologist was influenced by the interests of his parents…
An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author and explorer…
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Archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl,Archaeologist Arne Skjolsvold (Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo)
Foreword By Erik K. Reed. Memoirs Of The Society For American Archaeology, No. 12, 1956.
