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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

The raft currently docked at North Cove In 2006 a Norwegian team led by Olav Heyerdahl, grandson of Thor Heyerdahl, constructed the replica-raft in an attempt to duplicate the original Kon-Tiki voyage. Capelotti's Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon-Tiki (2001). Heyerdahl's 1947 expedition across the Pacific was a huge success: it made him Norway's most famous person, his book became an international best seller, and their documentary won an Academy Award in 1951. Rønning and Sandberg are best known for directing the epic Kon-Tiki, a fictionalized take on Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl's 101-day expedition across the Pacific Ocean on a wooden raft. Film tells the true story of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his expedition across the Pacific on a raft made of balsa wood. Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. Kon-Tiki Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific ocean in a balsa wood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans already back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the sea and settle on Polynesian islands. Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure—a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. After gathering financing for the trip with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101 day-long journey across 8,000 kilometers, all while the world was watching. Release Date: May 1, 1990 Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Thrilling trailer for 'Kon-Tiki' ocean drama arrives.