Tigris Expedition

Literature & Fiction

HEYERDAHL, THOR

Contemporary

Flamingo

Aku-aku: The Secret of Easter Island

History

Australia & Oceania

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

'I HAD NO aku-aku. Nor did I know what an aku-aku was, so I could hardly have used one if I had it./ Every sensible person on Easter Island has an aku-aku. I too got one there, but at the moment I was organizing a voyage to that very place, so I did not posses one. Perhaps that as why arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier". From 1st paragraph. Illustrated with color photos and maps. 1958.

AKU-AKU-THE SECRET OF EASTER ISLAND

Rand Mc Nally & Company

When Thor Heyerdahl landed his Kon-Tiki raft on a tiny South Pacific atoll in 1947, he had wrought the missing link in the massive chain of evidence he was forging in support of his theory on origins of the Polynesian peoples. Now, for the first time, he sets forth in detail his reasons for believing that early Polynesians came, not directly from Asia, but from the Americas. 7.5x10", xv+821 pp., maps, 90 plates from photographs (including 8 in color).

American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition

Historical Study & Educational Resources

George Allen and Unwin

Sea Routes to Polynesia: American Indians and Early Asiatics in the Pacific

Rand-McNally

Twentieth impression. Clean pages. No dust jacket.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy.

The " Kon-Tiki" Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas

HarperCollins, Publishers

Adventure classic His goal was to prove a new theory of polynesian genealogy. in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time Heyerdahl argued that the advances he carried on the trip were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was published in 1950. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo.

Kon-Tiki Expedition

Reference

English as a Second Language

Has index at back of book... Maps inside covers and on end pages.

Fatu-Hiva: Back to nature

Travel

Travel Writing

Allen& Unwin

One of the world's foremost explorers investigates the origins of Maldive history and discovers that the seemingly remote and insignificant islands on the Indian Ocean once formed a crucial crossroads for early pre-European civilizations

The Maldive mystery

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

George Allen Unwin

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (English and Norwegian Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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