The Kon-Tiki Expedition book cover

Legendary Experimental Voyage

Travel Writing

The Kon-Tiki Expedition

by Thor Heyerdahl

This is the story of how Thor Heyerdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyerdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.


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Book details

Published by HarperCollins Publishers

Paperback ISBN: 9780006550334 22 Jul 1996 195 x 130 x 19 (mm) 204g