![]() ![]() ![]() The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the United States Army. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, Heyerdahl argued they were incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. ![]() Dust jacket which has some shelf ware, minor chipping and is price clipped. Book has some shelf-ware and bumping and the spine is ever so slightly shelf-cocked. Sixth Printing, November 1950 with an āEā on the copyright page. Rand McNally & Co, Chicago, IL, U.S.A., 1950. Date is 1950, This book was published with dust jacket which has some shelf ware, minor chipping and is price clipped. Binding is good and pages are slightly tanned. This is a well read book with a moderately tight spine. Please see all pictures for details on book condition. KON-TIKI six men cross the Pacific on a raft (with eighty photographs of the voyage) ![]()
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