The trip with Kon-Tiki made Thor Heyerdahl world famous. Now finally comes the biography of the adventurer, researcher and man Thor Heyerdahl. When the Kon-Tiki fell prey to the reef at the South Sea island of Raroia in August 1947, Thor Heyerdahl had completed the voyage of his life. Contrary to the truths of the experts, he had shown that a raft of balsa could drift in all weathers from the coast of South America to Polynesia, a distance of nearly 8,000 kilometers. This is how he found that there had been human contact over this vast ocean area. The trip with Kon-Tiki sent Thor Heyerdahl to the heights of fame. The book he wrote was translated into all the world's languages. But the adventurous journey would also lead him into difficult paths. Because while ordinary people cheered the daring, the scientists grumbled. He was also to experience victory and defeat early on in his private life. On Christmas Eve 1936, at the age of 22, he had married Liv, who was two years his junior. It was to be the Kon-Tiki trip that blew up the marriage.
Format Hardcover
Release year 2005
Publisher Gyldendal
Language Norwegian, Bokmål
Subject Voyage of discovery
Number of pages 456
Height 227 mm
Width 154 mm
Length 45 mm
Weight 866 g
Series Thor Heyerdahl biography
ISBN 9788205298132