Sunflower's Voyage in Straw Boats

Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Did someone reach the Americas 2,000 years before Columbus? Who was he? Where did he come from? How did he reach the Americas? The "Kon-Tiki" raft will take you on a perilous journey of discovery. Thor Heyerdahl, the renowned 20th-century anthropologist and maritime explorer born in Norway in 1914, has narrated a heroic epic more thrilling than Columbus and more miraculous than Magellan. He challenges Columbus's claim to the discovery of the Americas; he questions the spread of Pacific maritime civilizations; he boldly outlines the maritime routes of Afro-Asian-European civilizations thousands of years ago; he organized several world-shocking expeditions. His conclusion—shocking and groundbreaking, shaking the academic world, and rewriting the history of human civilization!