Kon Tiki

Kon Tiki
Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781632200174

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“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? . . . Reply at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. On every page of this true chronicle—from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash landing and the native islanders’ hula dances—each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.

The Impossible Voyage of Kon Tiki

The Impossible Voyage of Kon Tiki
Author: Deborah Kogan Ray
Publsiher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781684447091

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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph—this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the South Pacific via raft, why he wanted to re-create the voyage, and how he planned for it. She uses primary-source quotations on each spread to shore up the factual history of the events portrayed in the book. Her illustrations add emotion to this harrowing journey. From the Hardcover edition.

Lame Deer Seeker of Visions

Lame Deer  Seeker of Visions
Author: Lame Deer,Richard Erdoes
Publsiher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1994-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780671888022

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Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

The Lost City of Z

The Lost City of Z
Author: David Grann
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781400078455

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century—the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned. “Suspenseful…rollicking.” —The New York Times In 1925, Percy Fawcett went into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!

American Indians in the Pacific

American Indians in the Pacific
Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 821
Release: 1952
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: LCCN:78005938

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Kon Tiki Man

Kon Tiki Man
Author: Thor Heyerdahl,Christopher Ralling
Publsiher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1991
Genre: Explorers
ISBN: IND:30000027329998

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A fascinating, lavishly-illustrated biography of the explorer- adventurer-anthropologist who in 1947 voyaged on a balsawood raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to the Polynesian islands. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Se or Kon Tiki the Biography of Thor Heyerdahl

Se  or Kon Tiki  the Biography of Thor Heyerdahl
Author: Arnold Jacoby
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 470
Release: 1967
Genre: Biography
ISBN: UTEXAS:059173017873190

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"The voyage of Kon-Tiki just two decades ago was one of the great true adventures of our century. For its daring leader, Thor Heyderahl, this expedition was the turning point of a life already crowded with excitement. Now, overnight, he was an international celebrity-- but a man half-obscured by the shadow of his own achievement. Millions new his name, but few knew the man behind the voyage. In this definitive biography, Arnold Jacoby focuses on that man. He tells of Heyerdahl's boyhood youth, of the experimental year when he and his bride returned to nature on a remote Pacific island to see if modern man was better off than primitive man, and of his wartime experiences in the Free Norwegian Army. One theme recurs throughout those years: Heyerdahl's growing conviction that accepted scientific opinion about the origins of the South Sea islanders was incorrect. But his own theories brought only scorn from the scientific community-- until he set out to prove himself right in the only way possible, by recreating the Pacific voyage he knew must once have take place. The Kon-Tiki and subsequent expeditions to Easter Island and the Galapagos won Heyerdahl renown and, perhaps more importantly, scientific respect. The behind-the-scenese stories of these achievements and thier aftermath, are all part of this fascinating book."--inside jacket.

The Raftsmen

The Raftsmen
Author: Ryan Barnett
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 1770859780

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"A dramatic retelling of four adventurers who crossed the North Atlantic on a raft, featuring archival photography, film stills taken aboard the raft, news reports, contemporary interviews and original illustrations."--