It became an international best-seller and was translated into 70 different languages. I’ve never forgotten this book which my mother, Nancy, bought for my sailing father, but which, as a child, I read and re-read, studying the black & white photographs of the strange, bearded crew and imagining my bed as a balsa raft.
This is their story and is full of adventure: a man overboard, a visit by a huge whale, and stormy seas that swept the raft.Īfter 101 days on the back of the Humboldt Current, Kon-Tiki was wrecked on a reef-forming part of Raroia an island in the Polynesia group. The unhandy raft would only blow downwind and drift down current, but skipper Thor Heyerdahl was convinced his 4,300-mile journey from Callao, Peru to the islands of Polynesia had been carried out centuries beforehand. Back to home page See More Details about 'Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl (1993, Trade Pap.' Return to top. The Kon-Tiki Expedition Heyerdahl, Thor Published by Penguin Books Ltd, UK, 1973 ISBN 10: 0140019960 ISBN 13: 9780140019964 Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, United Kingdom Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Fair £ 0.82 Convert currency £ 3. His voyage was successful, but the same couldn’t be said for his theories. To prove his theory, he built a raft out of local materials in Peru and set sail across the Pacific.
Once they dropped the tow rope, the six-man crew of Kon-Tiki, the 45ft square-rigged raft made of balsa wood logs lashed together, knew there was no way back. In 1947, a Norwegian adventurer named Thor Heyerdahl set out to prove a theory of his that the people of Polynesia came there from South America. Published by: George Allen & Unwin (17th Edition 1952)
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