Early Man and the Ocean
by Thor Heyerdahl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
The beginning of navigation and seaborne civilizations - migration routes and cultural origins. The author proved on several occasions that so called primitive craft could travel vast distances across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans using powerful currents and winds as natural conveyor belts. The oceans were not the barrier to early movement that had always been assumed. 392 pages with 21 pages of illustrations and endpaper colour map of Convenient Oversea 'Escalators'. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on first page, stamp on publishing page and borrowing sleave remnants on back endpapers. Dust jacket in very good condition with sticker on spine and flaps have crease where folded.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lems Bookshop (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2946
- Title
- Early Man and the Ocean
- Author
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Explorers, Adventure, Culture, Reference
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Cultural; Explorers; Reference;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lems Bookshop
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FLAGSTAFF HILL, South Australia
About Lems Bookshop
Online Bookshop. To save on postage I will consider delivery to you in Adelaide by arrangement. I have a lot of Australiana, Aboriginal, War, Adventure, Travel, History, Natural History, Earth Sciences, Childrens, Fiction and others to put online. Keep checking because I will be adding to my catalogue for a long time!
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