Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft cover

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

Author: Heyerdahl, Thor

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 8.0
Points 14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 79477
Points per Word 0.000176
Page Count 256
Points per Page 0.054688

Description

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1,000 years earlier.