The Tigris Expedition, In Search of our Beginnings

The Tigris Expedition, In Search of our Beginnings by Thor Heyerdahl. Published by Doubleday & Co Inc, Garden City, NY, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo. Condition: V-Fine in Good DJ. ISBN 0385173571. The Tigris Expedition is truly a voyage into antiquity. For five months, famed researcher, sailor, and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and a multinational crew that included - among others - a Russian, an American, a Japanese, and an Iraqi traced the trade routes of civilizations that flourished a thousand years before the birth of Christ, aboard a reed ship built after a pattern that was more than three millennia old. Map of voyage on frontispiece. 349 Pgs. Description text copyright 2000 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 71.