HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.
HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.
HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.
HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.

HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon.

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HEYERDAHL, Thor. The Kon-Tiki Expedition. By Raft Across the South Seas, translated by F.H. Lyon. London: George Allen & Unwin. [1950].

8vo. Original brick cloth, gilt device blocked on upper board, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, illustrated dust-wrapper, not price-clipped; pp. 235, [2 advertisement endpaper], frontispiece, title printed in black and ochre with "Kon-Tiki" device, 8 plates of photographic illustrations; mostly marginal wear to the wrappers, otherwise a very good copy.

Very rare first English edition, first impression. Heyerdahl's account of this legendary sailing raft expedition across the Pacific from Peru, undertaken to demonstrate the possibility that indigenous North and South Americans could have crossed the Pacific to Polynesia. The expedition ended when the raft was wrecked on a coral reef in the Tuamoto Archipelago, having covered 4,300 miles, but Heyerdahl had demonstrated to plausibility of his hypothesis.

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