by Thor Heyerdahl · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582537767
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«The Kon-Tiki Expedition» is Thor Heyerdahl's adventure chronicle, published by Longman in paperback (104 pages, in English).
In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five other crew members traveled some 4,300 nautical miles on a log raft, from Peru to Polynesia, to test his theory about the settlement of the islands. The account describes the three months on the open sea, with storms, whales and sharks, until land was sighted.
This edition is an abridged and simplified version by Norman Wymer, included in the Longman Structural Readers series (Stage 6). Original title: Kon-Tiki Ekspedisjonen (1948).
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language (young people and adults), it is suitable for classroom reading or for practicing autonomous reading in English.
Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
