Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific By Raft by Thor Heyerdahl, F.H. Lyon

Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific By Raft

Thor Heyerdahl, F.H. Lyon

303 pages first pub 1948 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative slow-paced
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Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancien...

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adventurous: 96%

inspiring: 70%

informative: 68%

hopeful: 20%

reflective: 20%

funny: 12%

lighthearted: 10%

relaxing: 8%

challenging: 4%

emotional: 4%

tense: 4%

mysterious: 2%


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