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Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl, F.H. Lyon ISBN: 0-671-72652-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (35 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Like Nothing Else I Have Ever Read Before
Comment: When I was very young my father used to read my brothers, my sister and I books from his collection. Yesterday I picked up this book, by chance, in a store and could not put it down. I bought it, read it last night and realized that this was one of those books that had been read to me so long ago. It's funny to think this, but looking back on it I realize that I always believed the story to be fiction. Nothing like this could ever really happen!...but it DID happen, and not too long ago either. Last night I sat down with this book and could not put it down until it was finished. You are drawn into the planning of the expedition, the day-to-day life of the crew and, by the end of the book, you feel as though you were ON the Kon-Tiki with these six men. You reach the end of the book and instantly crave another adventure, or another thousand pages. I would be doing this book an injustice by trying to explain the feeling it gives the reader, but to say that it has effortlessly toppled every notion I ever had about what makes a "good" book would be very accurate indeed. A must read--for anyone of any age in any country.
Rating: 5
Summary: True Fiction
Comment: The events that occur in the book I read, Kon-Tiki, seem so fantastic and unbelievable that if you didn't know any better, you'd swear they were made up. It is a book written by a world-renowned archeologist, Thor Heydrahl, about his real-life adventure. To prove his theory that a long-extinct race in South America was actually descended from a people that came from, and then later returned to Polynesia, Heydrahl set out on a remarkable journey. He, along with five others, made a raft out of balsa logs, and without using metal of any form, sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. Their adventures and struggles, both on and off the raft, combine to make an incredible tale of knowledge, bravery, and luck.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fascinating Book Loaded with Scientific Information
Comment: In this classic, Heyerdahl constructs a raft to sail 4,300 nautical miles from Peru to the South Pacific Islands in order to prove his theory that the natives of Peru could have migrated to these islands thousands of years ago. This book contains a great deal of information of interest to scientists. These include the appearance of previously little-known fish, the scope of marine bioluminescense, the deployment of ocean currents, etc. It is interesting to note that the Polynesians realized that the Earth was round. A re-examination of the common belief that prescientific peoples invariably believed in a flat Earth is clearly warranted.
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Title:Kon-Tiki ASIN: B000055XNX Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.99 |
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Title: Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island. by Thor. Heyerdahl ISBN: 0528818104 Publisher: Rand McNally & Co Pub. Date: January, 1958 List Price(USD): $109.50 |
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Title: Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum, Thomas Fogarty, George Varian, Thomas Philbrick, Tom Philbin ISBN: 0140437363 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0045720207 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia) Pub. Date: January, 1971 |
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Title: The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz ISBN: 1558216847 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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