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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Thor Heyerdahl ebook
ISBN: 1602397953, 9781602397958
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: epub
Page: 304

In 1947, the world is gripped with excitement as the young Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl embarks on an astonishing expedition - a journey of 4300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft. His book, Kon-Tiki, sold tens of millions of copies, and his 1950 documentary won an Academy Award, as much a recognition of the feat as the film. Release Date: May 1, 1990 Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. If not a book for guys, at least a book clearly written by one. In 1947, the world is gripped with excitement as the young Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl embarks on an astonishing expedition – a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft. Kon Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft was written by Thor Heyerdahl in 1950 following the successful completion of the voyage he made from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft. Kon-Tiki is a new, much buzzed-about film from Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, which depicts a historic expedition across the Pacific Ocean by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. Would you sign on for three months in shark-infested waters on a tippy raft under a captain who can't swim? Yesterday we made models of the Kon-Tiki raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to float across the Pacific. The shrewdest joke in Kon-Tiki's surefire story — about Thor Heyerdahl's 4000-mile South Pacific expedit. This turned out to be one of those homeschool craft projects that ends up working really well. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl My rating: 3 of 5 stars. The film that got them the gig was Kon-Tiki, about explorer Thor Heyerdal's journey across the Pacific on a balsa wood raft. Kon-Tiki opens with a full- face shot of the young, adventurous Heyerdahl striding toward the camera across a frozen lake, outpacing a dozen classmates all shouting at him to turn back before he drowns his fool self. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. Heyerdahl, who died in 2002, wrote both a bestselling book (The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas), and directed a documentary (Kon-Tiki) about his extraordinary voyage. When I was a kid, a librarian in the New Jersey town where I grew up, suggested that I read Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific On a Raft, Thor Hyerdahl's account of his death-defying journey across the Pacific. €�Kon-Tiki,” the feature film version of Thor Heyerdahl's legendary 1947 journey across the Pacific Ocean on a raft, was nominated for a 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 voyage across the Pacific was one of these events. Awards and The Golden Globes, Kon-Tiki follows a young Norwegian adventurer, Thor Heyerdahl, who embarks on an astonishing expedition – a journey of 4300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft.