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Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Atlantic Ocean
ISBN : 0006545300
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Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN :
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN :
Discusses the ships, navigational systems, achievements, and discoveries of ancient seamen and examines their influence on the spread of culture in the ancient world and on subsequent exploration.
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1632200171
“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? . . . Reply at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. On every page of this true chronicle—from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash landing and the native islanders’ hula dances—each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.
Author : Lindsay Buroker
Publisher : Lindsay Buroker
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold. But she has a plan. Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact, he's quite fond of killing them. Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can't let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does, she’ll never see her daughter again. Fans of Firefly and Star Wars should enjoy this fun, fast-paced space opera series from USA Today best-selling author, Lindsay Buroker. If you like to wait and binge-read, the series is now complete at eight novels.
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 1987-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345347275
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher :
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : 9780045720200
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher :
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Indian Ocean
ISBN : 9780006545316
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
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
Author : Thor Heyerdahl (zoologue, géographe).)
Publisher :
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1972
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