An edition of From raft to raft (1960)

From raft to raft.

[1st ed. in the United States of America]
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An edition of From raft to raft (1960)

From raft to raft.

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An account of the dangerous voyage led by Eric de Bisschop from Tahiti to Chile and back to Polynesia -- a foray twice as long as that undertaken by Kon-Tiki and one that encountered greater difficulties and dangers. Like Heyerdahl, de Bisschop undertook his voyage to prove an ethnological theory -- but a theory completely contrary to that of his Norwegian forerunner. Heyerdahl believed that voyagers from South America had visited Polynesia in prehistoric times; de Bisschop was equally certain that Tahitian sea rovers had traveled as far as Chile and Peru. After suffering unbelievable hardships during the first half of the voyage, some of the Tahiti Nui crew abandoned the project, but de Bisschop and Alain Brun, who narrated the story to Bengt Danielsson, continued on their journey, spending thirteen months aboard the most primitive rafts. But despite the inadequacy of their crafts -- all of which had a frightening tendency to break up -- coupled with the dangers of attacking sharks, mutiny, raging storms, and near-starvation, the voyage was completed in record time, but not before tragic death.

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Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
264

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Cover of: From raft to raft
From raft to raft: an incredible voyage from Tahiti to Chile and back
2013, Skyhorse Publishing
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From raft to raft.
1960, Doubleday
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Garden City, N.Y

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Library of Congress
G530 .D253 1960a

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Pagination
264 p.
Number of pages
264

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Open Library
OL5800284M
Internet Archive
fromrafttoraft00dani
LCCN
60013514
OCLC/WorldCat
486435

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