The Kon Tiki Expedition
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Author |
: Deborah Kogan Ray |
Publisher |
: Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 2015-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580896207 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580896200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki by : Deborah Kogan Ray
Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph—this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the South Pacific via raft, why he wanted to re-create the voyage, and how he planned for it. She uses primary-source quotations on each spread to shore up the factual history of the events portrayed in the book. Her illustrations add emotion to this harrowing journey.
Author |
: Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 821 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:78005938 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Indians in the Pacific by : Thor Heyerdahl
Author |
: Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781451685923 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1451685920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kon-Tiki by : Thor Heyerdahl
Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. 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, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land -- the Polynesian island of Puka Puka. Translated into sixty-five languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage -- a magnificent saga of men against the sea. Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Kon-Tiki has been prepared by an editorial committee headed by Harry Shefter, professor of English at New York University. It includes a foreword by the author, a selection of critical excerpts, notes, an index, and a unique visual essay of the voyage.
Author |
: Lame Deer |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1994-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780671888022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0671888021 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions by : Lame Deer
Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.
Author |
: Axel Andersson |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1788742753 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781788742757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Hero for the Atomic Age by : Axel Andersson
"First published in 2010 by Peter Lang, Ltd., International Academic Publishers."--Title page verso.
Author |
: Erik Hesselberg |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 88 |
Release |
: 1950 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015019066367 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kon-Tiki and I by : Erik Hesselberg
The author relates the voyage of the Kon-Tiki expedition across 4300 miles of ocean in a raft as he experienced and sketched it.
Author |
: Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780006545309 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0006545300 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ra Expeditions by : Thor Heyerdahl
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Author |
: Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2014-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632200174 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1632200171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kon-Tiki by : Thor Heyerdahl
“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? . . . Reply at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. On every page of this true chronicle—from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash landing and the native islanders’ hula dances—each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Thor Heyerdahl |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books (CA) |
Total Pages |
: 350 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000027329998 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kon-Tiki Man by : Thor Heyerdahl
A fascinating, lavishly-illustrated biography of the explorer- adventurer-anthropologist who in 1947 voyaged on a balsawood raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to the Polynesian islands. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Peter Joseph Capelotti |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813529786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813529783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea Drift by : Peter Joseph Capelotti
Heyerdahl's radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners traveled between continents on ocean currents electrified the postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty million copies in sixty-five languages.".