Ebook: Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft

This book tells the story of how six young men proved that a prehistoric voyage from South America [to Polynesia] was possible ... The South American balsa raft, which scholars had claimed would sink if it were not regularly dried out ashore, stayed buoyant as a cork. And Polynesia, held to be inaccessible for a watercraft from ancient America, proved to be well within the range of aboriginal voyagers from Peru.-p. xii.;Theory -- Expedition is born -- To South America -- Across the Pacific -- Halfway -- Across the Pacific -- To the South Sea Islands -- Among Polynesians.