This popular Classics audio book is now available for free download or. Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. Listen the original Kon-Tiki audiobook by Thor Heyerdahl in full length for free. It is the basis for the 2012 Norwegian film directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe. Translated into sixty-five languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage - a magnificent saga of men against the sea. After three months and 4,300 nautical miles on the open sea they sighted landthe Polynesian island of Puka Puka.The Kon-Tiki has been translated into sixty-five languages and has sold millions of copies. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a raft built from balsa wood, bamboo, and hemp. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page in the year of publication, “To my dear friend Ben in full appreciation of the grand job you have done for this book, and in memory of all the pleasant moments we spent together in promoting it! With all best wishes from Thor Chicago 12/7 1950.” Near fine in a near fine jacket that shows some light rubbing to the extremities.

Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout, cartographic endpapers. Kon Tiki Thor Heyerdahl Adventure Book Vintage Paperback Australia. Kon-Tiki, raft in which the Norwegian scientist Thor Heyerdahl and five companions sailed in 1947 from the western coast of South America to the islands east of Tahiti. 2014-books-readanthropologyart-and-artists.

If you happen to come across another sad copy somewhere rescue it immediately. The book Kon-Tiki was a best-seller, and a documentary motion picture of the expedition won an Academy Award in 1951. Kon-Tiki: Six Men Cross the Pacific on a Raft.įirst American edition of the explorer’s classic first book. The Kon-Tiki Expedition Idioma Ingls Heyerdahl, Thor: Libros Spirit Of Adventure. Erik Hesselberg wrote and drew this amusing and simplified version of the Kon Tiki expedition presumably chiefly for his young daughter to be able to read.

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