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HEYERDAHL (Thor). A EXPEDIÇÃO da “Kon-Tiki” em Jangada pelos Mares do Sul. Lisboa. 1952. - HEYERDAHL (Thor) A EXPEDIÇÃO da “Kon-Tiki” em Jangada pelos Mares do Sul . Traduzido do norueguês por F.H. Lyon. Traduzido do inglês por Agenor Soares de Moura. 2.ª Edição. Lisboa: s.n., 1952. 318 pp.: il.; 215 mm. Second edition. Account of the expedition that Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) undertook in 1947, crossing the Pacific in 101 days aboard a raft made of balsa logs, from the coast of Peru to the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia. The voyage aimed to demonstrate that the islands of the South Pacific could have been colonized by peoples originating from South America. The book, published in Norwegian in 1948, became a worldwide bestseller, translated into dozens of languages. The first Portuguese edition is from 1950. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate