The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki

Author: Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580896200
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
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.

Kon-Tiki

Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451685920
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl’s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land -- the Polynesian island of Puka Puka. Translated into sixty-five languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage -- a magnificent saga of men against the sea. Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Kon-Tiki has been prepared by an editorial committee headed by Harry Shefter, professor of English at New York University. It includes a foreword by the author, a selection of critical excerpts, notes, an index, and a unique visual essay of the voyage.

Kon-Tiki and I

Author: Erik Hesselberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
The author relates the voyage of the Kon-Tiki expedition across 4300 miles of ocean in a raft as he experienced and sketched it.

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions

Author: Lame Deer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671888021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
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.

American Indians in the Pacific

Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 821

Book Description

Challenging the Pacific

Author: Maud Fontenoy
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611455049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Fontenoy follows Across the Savage Sea (2005), the account of her solo row across the Atlantic with a new challenge: crossing the Pacific along the "Kon-Tiki" route from Peru to the...

Kon-Tiki Man

Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
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

A Hero for the Atomic Age

Author: Axel Andersson
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781788742757
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"First published in 2010 by Peter Lang, Ltd., International Academic Publishers."--Title page verso.

Smuggler's Cove

Author: Martin Cate
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607747332
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival, in this James Beard Award-winning cocktail book. Featuring more than 100 delicious recipes (original and historic), plus a groundbreaking new approach to understanding rum, Smuggler’s Cove is the magnum opus of the contemporary tiki renaissance. Whether you’re looking for a new favorite cocktail, tips on how to trick out your home tiki grotto, help stocking your bar with great rums, or inspiration for your next tiki party, Smuggler’s Cove has everything you need to transform your world into a Polynesian Pop fantasia. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history.

Sea Drift

Author: Peter Joseph Capelotti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813529783
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
Heyerdahl's radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners traveled between continents on ocean currents electrified the postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty million copies in sixty-five languages.".