The Impossible Voyage Of Kon Tiki

Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684447097
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki written by Deborah Kogan Ray and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph—this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the South Pacific via raft, why he wanted to re-create the voyage, and how he planned for it. She uses primary-source quotations on each spread to shore up the factual history of the events portrayed in the book. Her illustrations add emotion to this harrowing journey. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Deborah Kogan Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781580896214
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki written by Deborah Kogan Ray and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781607349051
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph--this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific"--Publisher.

Author : Dolores Engel
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 9780839301516
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Kon-Tiki written by Dolores Engel and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the adventures of Thor Heyerdahl and his crew as they sail across the Pacific on the raft Kon-Tiki in an attempt to prove that the first Polynesian settlers could have come from South America.

Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780812449051
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kon-Tiki written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of a raft-born expedition across the Pacific Ocean to prove a theory of migration.

Author : Claudia Martin
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499434650
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make It Out Alive on a Desert Island written by Claudia Martin and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desert island might sound like a paradise of sunshine and buried treasure, but in real life, these environments are harsh on human beings. This intriguing book introduces readers to real-life scenarios unique to islands � and provides the tools to plan their own survival. A map and supply list give readers the base of survival plans, while Makerspace activities allow readers to exercise their critical thinking and creativity. Fact boxes provide enticing information to immerse readers in the island biome. This high-interest topic will encourage readers to engage with STEM material, making this a valuable book for any library.

Author : Stephen C. Jett
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319395
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Ocean Crossings written by Stephen C. Jett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.

Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632200171
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kon-Tiki written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162914634X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kon-Tiki written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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, 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. 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 : John Haslett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312324322
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Manteno written by John Haslett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day adventurer describes how he constructed a raft with the help of an indigenous people and embarked on a difficult and dangerous voyage around the Pacific in an effort to uncover the secrets of an ancient seafaring culture.