The Ra Expeditions

The Ra Expeditions PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006545300
Category : Atlantic Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The Ra Expeditions

The Ra Expeditions PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006545300
Category : Atlantic Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Star Nomad (Fallen Empire, Book 1)

Star Nomad (Fallen Empire, Book 1) PDF Author: Lindsay Buroker
Publisher: Lindsay Buroker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire. It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold. But she has a plan. Steal a dilapidated and malfunctioning freighter from a junkyard full of lawless savages. Slightly suicidal, but she believes she can do it. Her plan, however, does not account for the elite cyborg soldier squatting in the freighter, intending to use it for his own purposes. As an imperial soldier, he has no love for Alliance pilots. In fact, he's quite fond of killing them. Alisa has more problems than she can count, but she can't let cyborgs, savages, or ancient malfunctioning ships stand in her way. If she does, she’ll never see her daughter again. Fans of Firefly and Star Wars should enjoy this fun, fast-paced space opera series from USA Today best-selling author, Lindsay Buroker. If you like to wait and binge-read, the series is now complete at eight novels.

Early Man and the Ocean

Early Man and the Ocean PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Discusses the ships, navigational systems, achievements, and discoveries of ancient seamen and examines their influence on the spread of culture in the ancient world and on subsequent exploration.

The Tigris Expedition

The Tigris Expedition PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006545316
Category : Indian Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1632200171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? . . . Reply at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. On every page of this true chronicle—from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash landing and the native islanders’ hula dances—each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.

American Indians in the Pacific

American Indians in the Pacific PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 821

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Thinking Through Cultures

Thinking Through Cultures PDF Author: Richard A. Shweder
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674884168
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Shweder calls for exploration of the human mind--and of one's own mind--by thinking through the ideas and practices of other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion, and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a traditional Hindu temple town in India.

Pyramids of Túcume

Pyramids of Túcume PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500050767
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"Well-illustrated synthesis of multi-year excavations at a city of the Lambayeque culture extending over 220 hectares with 26 major pyramids, and founded ca. AD 1100"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Kon-Tiki Man

Kon-Tiki Man PDF Author: Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Book Description
A fascinating, lavishly-illustrated biography of the explorer- adventurer-anthropologist who in 1947 voyaged on a balsawood raft named Kon-Tiki from Peru to the Polynesian islands. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Kon-Tiki and I

Kon-Tiki and I PDF Author: Erik Hesselberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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The author relates the voyage of the Kon-Tiki expedition across 4300 miles of ocean in a raft as he experienced and sketched it.