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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Thor Heyerdahl ebook
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Page: 304
Format: epub
ISBN: 1602397953, 9781602397958

Not going to lie- I have never heard of any of the actors in this film, the writers, or the director. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft By Thor Heyerdahl 2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1602397953 | EPUB | 16 MBOne of the great adventures of our time.—Life Am going to cross Pacific on a. If not a book for guys, at least a book clearly written by one. Swedes shun Norway's 'Kon-Tiki'. Capelotti's Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001). Heyerdahl, who died in 2002, wrote both a bestselling book (The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas), and directed a documentary (Kon-Tiki) about his extraordinary voyage. Kon-Tiki Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans already back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea and settle on Polynesian islands. This countered prevailing scientific opinion that Polynesia had been populated from Asia: after all, it seemed impossible for early people with primitive technology to travel the 5,000 miles across the Pacific it takes to get from Peru to Polynesia. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft: Thor Heyerdahl. Last night I watched Kon-Tiki which is about the expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands in a raft which took place in 1947. Any cultural similarities between South These kinds of nitty-gritty which make Heyerdahl's book of 1950, Kon-Tiki: Six Men Cross the Pacific on a Raft, so compelling, are not made vivid. Kon-Tiki is based on the novel and the earlier documentary of the story of an epic raft journey across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki is a new, much buzzed-about film from Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, which depicts a historic expedition across the Pacific Ocean by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101 day-long journey across 8,000 kilometers, all while the world was watching. The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. The 60-some years that have passed since Thor Heyerdahl & Co. Academy Awards this weekend is this film, an epic survival adventure called Kon-Tiki about Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdal (played by Pål Sverre Hagen) and his 4,300 mile journey across the Pacific on a wooden raft. Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. Not long thereafter, Thor traveled to Peru to embark on the voyage of the Kon-Tiki, the raft that he would sail across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl My rating: 3 of 5 stars. Determined to prove this theory, Heyerdahl, along with a crew of five, built a raft that replicated the kind that would have been used for such an expedition and sailed across the Pacific Ocean.