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On a primitive raft made of fortyfoot balsa logs and named kontiki in honor of a legendary sun king, heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient peruvians could have made the 4,300mile voyage to the polynesian islands on a similar craft. The pdf to book tool makes it easy to design, upload, and print professional quality books. Find books like kontiki from the worlds largest community of readers. You can read all your books for as long as a month for free and will get the latest books notifications. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 240 pages and is available in paperback format.
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Oct 11, 2012 open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Kontiki ekspedisjonen is a 1948 book by the norwegian writer thor heyerdahl. When he cannot get his theories to be taken seriously, he proposes to cross the ocean the way he believes the primitive. By supporting quietbooksbytiki, youre supporting a small business, and, in turn, etsy.
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