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Auction History Result 1h791 KON-TIKI insert '51 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Pacific Ocean on a raft and lives! Date Sold 10/2/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1951 Vintage Theatrical Folded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Kon-Tiki, the 1950 (released in the U.S. in 1951) Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian/Swedish seafaring expedition adventure documentary ("More thrilling than any fiction!"; "They chopped down 9 trees and floated across the Pacific!"; "The amazing saga of six men who deliberately risked their lives to prove a theory! On a primitive-type raft of balsa logs that tossed like a cork they drifted at the whim of the trade winds from the shores of Peru to the isles where the hula girls wait! 1-1 days of surprise and suspense; of storm and sunshine; of peril and peace! ... 4,300 miles of uncharted sea. No contact with civilization. No sight of ship or shore. Nothing but themselves and their battle against the elements, their hair-raising contacts with rare and dangerous denizens of the deep, their full-couraged efforts to keep busy--alive--and afloat! Now you can live it all with them--from building the raft to bare-handed encounters with man-eating monsters--in the lifetime of excitement crowded into the greatest sea adventure of our time!"; "The amazing adventure of six men on a raft across the Pacific! True! Thrilling!"; "The amazing film record of six men on a raft across the Pacific! True! Thrilling!"; "Photographed by the men who lived it... Told by THOR HEYERDAHL author of the best-selling book."; Heyerdahl was convinced that South American Indians had sailed across the Pacific Ocean on rafts and had been the first people to settle in the Polynesian Islands; many people thought it was impossible to cross the ocean in a raft, so Heyerdahl and his team built a raft that replicated what those Indians would likely have made, and then they sailed it themselves, with the only exception to authenticity being that they took a radio; they survived and proved the point that it was possible!) featuring Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland, and Torstein Raaby If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. There are some creases and tears of varying lengths (approximately 1" or less) along parts of some edges. A few of the tears or other defects as described above are repaired with tape from the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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