Word: kon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kon-Tiki. An engrossing documentary record of how six men floated 4,300 miles from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa raft (TIME, April...
Within five weeks of its publication last fall, Thor Heyerdahl's tale of rafting the Pacific, Kon-Tiki (TIME, Sept. 18), climbed to the top of the U.S. bestseller list and has stayed there ever since. Including a Book-of-the-Month Club distribution of 200,000, U.S. sales have topped...
...Kon-Tiki boom in Britain has been even more remarkable. In a country with a third as many people as the U.S., the book has sold 230,000 copies in eleven months. Another adventure yarn that has been racing Kon-Tiki in British bookstores is Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse (TIME, Jan. 23, 1950), a suspense-tilled story of the escape of British soldiers from a German prison camp in Silesia. It has sold 250,000 copies since its British publication two years...
...implications of atomic warfare, was more curious about Frank Scully's mess of conjecture and hearsay on Behind the Flying Saucers. A more legitimate curiosity about six men on a raft in the Pacific elevated to best-sellerdom a rousing record of adventure in Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. In the midst of the new confrontation of East & West, books about World War II had somewhat the quality of mislaid telegrams, now found and opened but no longer urgent. Yet some were important for the record and others still generated excitement. Easily the most exciting and important were...
...Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl...