American Indians In The Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Heyerdahl, Thor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company, 1953 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. xv (i), 821 pp, list of 90 b&w illustrations, abbreviations in captions to illustrations, list of maps, fold-out map, Introduction: The Polynesian Problem; Part I. Polynesia and the Old World; Part II. Polynesia and Northwest America; Part III. The Road Through Hawaiki; Part VI. The Complexity of Polynesian Origins; Part V. Traces of Caucasian-Like Elements in the Pre-Inca Peru; Part VI. Ston Human Statues and Megalithic Cult-Sites; Part VII. Botanical Evidence of Polynesian Routes; Part VIII. Appendix: Some Ethnological notes on the Fauna; Part IX. Polynesia and South America: Some Inherited Analogies; X. Myths and Memories; literature cited in the text, index. Not Price Clipped. 1/2" to 3/4" chipping along bottom edge spine dj with an addition small chip to bottom front panel fore-edge corner, and lightly age-toned text block edges. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002416
- Title
- American Indians In The Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition
- Author
- Heyerdahl, Thor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES THE POLYNESIAN PEOPLES THEORY OF ORIGINS AMERICAN INDIANS OF THE PACIFIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- ANTHROPOLOGY;
- Size
- 4to
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