6/22/2023 0 Comments Kon tiki book![]() Cantwell has had a distinguished career working primarily in cardiology and sports medicine. This copy is inscribed to physician and adventurer John Davis Cantwell. ![]() This work is a record of their 4300-mile journey, one of the most fascinating and inspirational Pacific adventures to be undertaken in modern times. Heyerdahl and his crew spent three months at sea, tossed around by storms and threatened by sharks, eventually ending up at the Polynesian island of Puka Puka. Heyerdahl was attempting to prove his theory that the South Sea Islands have been settled by an ancient race from the east led by a mythical hero named Kon-Tiki. On April 28, 1947, biologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of five men set out from Peru on a balsa log raft. John Davis Cantwell with best wishes from Thor Heyerdahl 1996.” ![]() Octavo, original blue cloth, cartographic endpapers, uncut, original dust jacket.įirst edition of this true story of Heyerdahl’s 4300-mile journey across the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft, with 80 photographic illustrations of his adventure, inscribed on the half title: “To Dr. Chicago, New York, San Francisco: Rand McNally, (1950). ![]()
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