American Indians In The Pacific: The Theory Behind The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl - 1952

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, light bumping to spine ends, 6" damp stain to spine and front cover else a solid copy.

Stockholm: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown cloth, gilt, some white lines. Bookseller's sticker inside cover, minor foxing on the front endpaper, and former owner's name, dated and one word on the front free endpaper. Contains 90 plates and 11 maps. xv, 821pp. This book proposes the cultural diffusionist model, backed up by Heyerdahl's own travels from South America to the Tuamoto Islands using a hand-built raft..

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. EX-LIBRIS. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1952. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9.5" by 7.5". Not Stated . Smart first edition of this extensive study of the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. The first edition of this work, following Thor Heyerdahls' successful book on his experiences during the expedition titled The Kon Tiki Expedition, first published in 1948, where he tells of his travels across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa tree raft. With this expedition Norwegian writer Heyerdahl wanted to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. This extensive book is a study behind this theory. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ninety full page plates, some in colour, well as further illustrations in text. With six of eleven coloured folding maps loosely inserted. From the library of Lord Raglan, Fitzroy John Somerset. Raglan"s great-great-grandfather was Field Marshal Fitzroy… Read More

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952. Printed in Stockholm, Sweden. 821 pages. 7 1/2 in x 10 in. Frontispiece illustrated with black and white plate of a Stone Statue at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia. Illustrated in text with b/w and color plates and 11 maps, including some fold-out maps. Pages clean, good condition. Previous owner's name on ffep, otherwise endpapers clean. Cover coming loose at endpapers. Brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges very lightly worn. Boards lightly scratched. GOOD+. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.

AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE PACIFIC, Bokforlaget Forum, 1952, first edition (hard-cover issue), near fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Replete with photos, maps and drawings. The authors theory behind his famous Kon-Tiki expedition. The true first edition, this one printed in English in Stockholm.

London: George Allen & Unwin, c. 1952. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition. . Binding: Original publisher’s brown cloth with gilt text on spine. Top edge dyed brown. Illustrated dust jacket. , Notes: Thor Heyerdahl (1914 – 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between separate cultures. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development. Heyerdahl subsequently made other voyages designed to demonstrate the possibility of contact between widely separated ancient people. He was appointed a government scholar in 1984. Bookplate of Peter Antony Lanyon-Orgill on verso of top cover. , Size: 4to (246x182mm). ,… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 821pp.incl.index; HB brwn.w/gilt; slight rub; bookplate; clean,tight pgs. DJ brick w/white&blk.-pic. cover; (folds out into poster); rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; 1½"tear,ft.cover; spine sunned w/wear on edges; some lt.soil. "This is the author's magnum opus in support of his theory of Polynesian origins in early America." 91pgs.of photos, 8 in full color, & 11 maps, 6 in color. Over 70 halftones. signed by Heyerdahl.