Thor Heyerdahl

Mysterious exploration has always been one of the greatest activities in the history of human development. It enables human beings to expand more living space and satisfy people's strong curiosity about the unknown world. With the painstaking efforts of generations of explorers to put life and death aside, the face of the world has been clearly presented before the eyes of the world, so that by the middle of the 20th century, there were few places...

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.

Includes notes, index and bibliography

Map on lining papers.

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...