Author: HEYERDAHL, THOR
Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific on a Raft
Description: Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1953. Hardcover. A Garden City Books reprint edition of a work originally published by Rand-McNally. Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl believed it was possible that various Polynesian islands had been populated by peoples from South America, rather than further west in the Pacific. In order to prove the possibility of this, he and his crew fashioned a crude raft from balsa wood logs tied together with ropes, and made it 4300 nautical miles to an island near Tahiti. With five sections of black & white photos from the voyage, and maps of the route at endpapers. --- In blue glossy paper-covered boards with image of a native islander to cover. Volume wrapped in jacket with color image of the raft, the Kon-Tiki, to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy, unmarked but for prior owner's signature and address to half title. Clipped jacket still carries original $1 flap price, with chips and & small tears to edges but remaining mostly intact; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [6], 218 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .
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Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific on a Raft
Description: Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1953. Hardcover. A Garden City Books reprint edition of a work originally published by Rand-McNally. Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl believed it was possible that various Polynesian islands had been populated by peoples from South America, rather than further west in the Pacific. In order to prove the possibility of this, he and his crew fashioned a crude raft from balsa wood logs tied together with ropes, and made it 4300 nautical miles to an island near Tahiti. With five sections of black & white photos from the voyage, and maps of the route at endpapers. --- In blue glossy paper-covered boards with image of a native islander to cover. Volume wrapped in jacket with color image of the raft, the Kon-Tiki, to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy, unmarked but for prior owner's signature and address to half title. Clipped jacket still carries original $1 flap price, with chips and & small tears to edges but remaining mostly intact; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [6], 218 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .
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Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88693
- Book number: 88693