Publisher:
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1953).:
Octavo, brown blind-stamped cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge brown, 235 pp + [iv] pp ads. Near-Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Heyerdahl has spent much of his life studying the culture of the Polynesian aborigines. His contention was that the primitive peoples possessed, 1,500 years ago, the means of travelling from South America to Polynesia. During the war he served in the Free Norwegian Air Force. After the war he decided to prove his claim, which had been rejected by experts, by sailing an exact replica of the ancient Inca balsa raft from...
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