Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002)
Forfatter af Kon-Tiki ekspeditionen
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"This is an enthralling book," Hamilton Lasso wrote in The New Yorker of Kon-Tiki (1948), "and I don't think I can be very far off in calling it the most absorbing sea tale of our time." Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnologist, conceived the theory---not then accepted by other scientists---that vis mere Polynesia may have been originally settled by people who crossed the 4,100 miles of ocean from Peru in rafts made of balsa logs. Kon-Tiki is the story of how he and five others built the raft, as people of the Stone Age could build it, and traveled in it from Peru to a small island east of Tahiti---a "most fascinating description of intelligent courage." Heyerdahl believes that he has at last solved the problem of how natives raised the great statues on Easter Island and has written a most absorbing account of it in Aku-Aku (1958). He has adduced further corroboration of his theory from the findings in The Archaeology of Easter Island (1961). In the spring of 1969, Heyerdahl was engaged in a new experiment---planning to cross the Atlantic from Morocco to Yucatan in a 12-ton papyrus boat that he and others built themselves in the manner of the ancient Egyptians. In spite of general skepticism as to whether the boat, called the Ra, could make the journey without sinking when it became thoroughly water-soaked, Heyerdahl and six others set out in full confidence. They hoped to demonstrate that Egyptians might have made the journey in this manner 4,000 or 5,000 years ago and thus were the precursors of the Incas and Mayas. In July 1969, however, they were forced to abandon their attempt 600 miles short of their goal, near the Virgin Islands, after a series of storms had crippled the Ra. They left it drifting in the hope that it might reach Barbados on its own. Their second attempt, in Ra II, was successful. A subsequent journey in the reed-ship Tigris in 1977--78 was meant to show that such craft could maneuver against the wind and thus complete round-trip journeys through the ancient world via the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Political conflicts in the region, however, led Heyerdahl and his crew to burn the Tigris in protest. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: L'explorateur norvégien Thor Heyerdahl vers 1980
Værker af Thor Heyerdahl
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations (1741) 98 eksemplarer
Kon-Tiki museum : Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway : Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History (1995) 5 eksemplarer
På jakt efter paradiset; et år på en sydhavsø 3 eksemplarer
Laßt sie endlich sprechen : die amerikanischen Ureinwohner erzählen ihre Geschichte (1997) 2 eksemplarer
Aku Aku [videorecording] 2 eksemplarer
KON TIKI a través del pacífico en una balsa 1 eksemplar
Экспедиция Кон-Тики / Ра 1 eksemplar
La expedición de la "Kon-Tiki" 1 eksemplar
Archaeological evidence of pre-Spanish visits to the Galápagos Islands : English and Spanish texts (1990) 1 eksemplar
Hải trình Kon–Tiki 1 eksemplar
The Maldive mystery 1 eksemplar
Oppdageren 1 eksemplar
In The Footsteps Of Adam 1 eksemplar
Early Man and the Ocean 1 eksemplar
Readers Digest Biography 1 eksemplar
Sjövägarna till Polynesien 1 eksemplar
Mistérios das Antigas Rotas Oceânicas 1 eksemplar
Z kontynentu na kontynent 1 eksemplar
Paradīzi meklējot 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Worlds to Explore: Classic Tales of Travel and Adventure from National Geographic (2006) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
Who Speaks for Earth? Seven Citizens of the World on Major Issues of the Global Environment (1973) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
The Illustrated Treasury of Literature/Modern Literature For Children (Boxed Set) (1986) 4 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Tigris Expedition • The Key to Rebecca • Horowitz and Mrs Washington •… (1980) 3 eksemplarer
Miłość Safini — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: No Job for a Lady • The Key to Rebecca • Banners of Silk • The Tigris Expedition — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Smak Grozy — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1914-10-06
- Dødsdag
- 2002-04-18
- Begravelsessted
- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Noruega
- Fødested
- Larvik, Norway
- Dødssted
- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
- Bopæl
- Larvik, Norway
Marquesas Islands
Peru
Tuamotu Islands
Easter Island
Norway (vis alle 7)
Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy - Uddannelse
- Oslo University
- Erhverv
- explorer
ethnographer
adventurer - Organisationer
- Académie des sciences de New York (1960)
Académie norvégienne des sciences (1958)
Association américaine d'anthropologie (1966)
ociété géographique de Norvège (1953)
Société géographique du Pérou (1953)
Société géographique du Brésil (1954) (vis alle 11)
Société Royale de Géographie d'Anvers, Belgique (1954)
Société géographique de l'URSS, Moscou, Russie (1964)
ulgarica Geographica Societas, Sofia, Bulgarie (1972)
Explorer's Club, New York (1942)
Société royale de géographie, Londres (Membre ∙ 19 64) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Commander of the Order of St. Olav, Norway (1951, with star, 1970)
Royal Geographical Society, London (1964)
Academy Award (1951)
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