087137
Transworld Publishers - George Allen & Unwin
London
1960
10,5×16
meki
253
engleski
Cijena: 6,00 EUR
The 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition was a venture by Norwegian explorer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed a balsa-wood raft across the Pacific Ocean to prove that ancient South American peoples could have inhabited Polynesia. The raft, named Kon-Tiki (after the Inca sun god), was built entirely of natural materials (balsa logs, bamboo, hemp) without the use of nails or wire, using techniques that were 1,500 years old. They set sail from the port of Callao, Peru, on April 28, 1947, and sailed westward. The voyage lasted 101 days, during which they covered about 6,900 kilometers (4,300 miles). The expedition ended on August 7, 1947, when the raft crashed on the reef of Raroia Island in the Tuamotu Archipelago. All crew members survived the accident. Heyerdahl's book "The Kon-Tiki Expedition" became a world bestseller, translated into more than 70 languages ??and sold more than 50 million copies. A documentary film made during the voyage won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1951. In 2012, a popular feature film was also made. Although Heyerdahl proved that the voyage was possible, modern research (genetics, linguistics) confirms that Polynesia originated in Asia, not South America, although contact between these cultures has been proven. The original raft is now kept in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo. Minor damage to the book cover.
