THOR HEYERDAHL - THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION BY RAFT ACROSS SOUTH SEAS - ILLUST 1952 ED.

Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.

1952 lovely vintage Reprint Society, Hardback with 247 pages including index, well-binded clean pages, lovely map end pages, apart from inscription and a few light small tape marks to first end pages book is in good condition.