The Kon-Tiki Expedition

Author: Heyerdahl, Thor

Pacific Ocean

Published on 22 July 1996 by HarperCollins Publishers (Flamingo) in the United Kingdom.

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.