By Thor Heyerdahl
"Am going to pass Pacific on a wood raft to help a concept that the South Sea islands have been peopled from Peru. Will you come?. . . answer at once." that's how six courageous and inquisitive males got here to hunt a deadly route to try a systematic conception. On a primitive raft made from forty-foot balsa logs and named "Kon-Tiki" in honor of a mythical solar king, Heyerdahl and 5 partners intentionally risked their lives to teach that the traditional Peruvians may have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on an analogous craft.
On each web page of this real chronicle—from the particular development of the raft via all of the risky and comedian adventures at the sea, to the astonishing crash-landing and the local islanders' hula dances—each reader will discover a healthy and spellbinding break out from the twenty-first century.
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