Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
$23.00 USD • Used
Stated fourteenth printing, October 1951, of the original 1950 Rand-McNally edition. Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl believed it was possible that various Polynesian islands had been popul...
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Stated fourteenth printing, October 1951, of the original 1950 Rand-McNally edition. 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 several sections of plates bearing black & white photos from the voyage, and maps of the route at endpapers. Translated from the Norwegian by F. H. Lyon. --- In blue-grey cloth-covered boards with image of a native islander in blind to cover, spine titling & decorations in gilt. Volume wrapped in jacket with color image of the raft, the Kon-Tiki, to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy, unmarked though with discolored endpapers. Fair-only, unclipped jacket ($4) with large tape-repaired open tear at head of spine, other small chips & scuffing to extremities but remaining mostly intact; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [12], 13-304 pages
Product Info
Publisher: Rand McNally & Company
Year: 1951
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
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