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1) Kon-Tiki
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Actual film record of the expedition (April 28, 1947 thru August 7, 1947) photographed by those 5 men who lived its great adventure of traveling 4300 miles, on a raft, across the ocean from Peru to Polynesia.
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Easter Island--known to its inhabitants as Rapa Nui--is unimaginably remote, a mysterious volcanic island battered by the Pacific Ocean. Yet somehow this isolated speck produced one of the world's most fascinating and least understood prehistoric cultures. Its awe-inspiring giant stone statues, set in a bare landscape of rolling hills, abandoned quarries and huge craters, have become icons of the ancient world. Who were the people who produced these...
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"The most comprehensive and complete account yet of those ancient seafarers who developed the world's first ocean-going vessels - and the advanced navigational systems to guide them - and discovered the last habitable lands on earth, the islands of the mighty Pacific Ocean."--Page 4 of cover.
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