Drawing on the Kon-Tiki Museum archive in Oslo and illustrated with many of Heyerdahl’s photographs, this is published on the 75th anniversary of the Norwegian explorer’s astonishing and perilous endeavour: to sail on a balsa-wood raft from Pacific South America to Polynesia.
Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun
£42.00
Edition:Hardback978195495799225/10/2022
Categories: 16. Books for Christmas 2022: Travel, Books for Christmas 2022, Travel
Tags: Exploration, Norway, Rivers & Seas
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