Thor Heyerdahl: Kon Tiki
Hardcover, nice book published by the Norwegian Book Club, 295 pages.
One of the great international bestsellers of the 20th century In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions set out on the risky raft voyage that bore the name of the Kon-Tiki expedition. Heyerdahl wanted to cross the Pacific Ocean on a balsa raft to prove that Polynesia could have been populated by South American peoples. No one thought he would be able to do it. The rest is history – a story of 8000 kilometers across the open ocean, 101 adventurous days and a crew that achieved the impossible. The amazing story of the journey was first published in 1948 and has since been read by generations. The book has been translated into over 70 languages.
