Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl's astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific.

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure--a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage.

On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers...

In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a natural and unspoiled world on the remote island of Fatu-Hiva in the South Pacific. Based on his original journals, Heyerdahl's documentary account charts how the dreams of a lifetime were transformed into a year of hope, excitement and unexpected danger. A story of love and adventure, the autobiography is also an impassioned plea for the preservation of the Earth against the tide of pollution and...

Kon-tiki fue el nombre de la balsa utilizada por el explorador noruego Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) en su expedicion de 1947 por el oceano Pacifico desde Sudamerica hasta la Polinesia. El nombre de la embarcacion se debia al dios solar de los incas, Viracocha, de quien se decia que antiguamente habia llevado el nombre de Kon-Tiki. Kon-Tiki es tambien el nombre del libro que escribio Heyerdahl sobre su experiencia. Heyerdahl sostenia que pobladores procedentes de Sudamerica podrian haber llegado hasta la Polinesia ya en tiempos precolombinos. El proposito de Heyerdahl era demostrar la...