Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft

Description:

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 1,000 years earlier.

subjects: Ethnology,  Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen (1947)

People: Thor Heyerdahl

Places: Pacific Ocean,  Polynesia