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Traces the life of the Norwegian explorer scientist and anthropologist examines and explains his scientific theories and describes his explorations including the KonTiki and Ra voyages
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Thor Heyerdahl 1914 2002 became worldfamous with his 1947 KonTiki expedition across the Pacific on a balsa raft He followed with other expeditions the Ra and Ra II and the Tigris and also organized numerous archaeological digs in unexpected places His books have sold millions of copies Less known is Heyerdahl s interest in the Caucasus which was first triggered by a visit to Azerbaijan where he saw the boat petroglyphs in Gobustan As a result Heyerdahl was convinced there had been migrations between this region and his homeland in Scandinavia He found confirmation in Snorri Sturluson s medieval saga about Odin s journey from the Caucasus Thor Heyerdahl s Search for Odin deals with issues related to Heyerdahl s insistence on early man s relationship between the two regions which was discussed at the Thor Heyerdahl Conference Baku 2011 by experts in fields such as archaeology history music and philology The forum was a cooperative effort between universities in Azerbaijan and Norway and served as a catalyst in the creation of this book which documents much of the research to date related to Heyerdahl s theory both supportive as well as critical of it The continued exploration of the merits of Thor Heyerdahl s theories however controversial they might be is a worthy tribute to his lasting legacy His enduring courage in challenging conventional wisdom should remain an example to us all Espen Barth Eide Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway 2012 2013
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This book has been republished under the new title The Lost Raft In 1995 John Haslett went to a tiny fishing village in Ecuador to begin building a thirtythousandpound raft made entirelynbspof balsa wood bamboo and manila ropenbspInspired by Thor Heyerdahls famed KonTiki voyage Haslett intended to sail five thousand nautical miles across the open sea to Hawaii What transpired however was anything but a recreation of Heyerdahls famous voyage Over the next five years Haslett and his crews journeyed through a surreal odyssey of madness mutiny obsession and survival They lived aboard primitive rafts for months at a time were marooned in alien worlds saw one vessel sunk another abandoned and another wrecked Ultimately Haslett and his colleagues would emerge with new discoveries about a lost culture Voyage of the Manteno is an ancient sea tale lived by modern men It is a compelling adventure brought to life by a cast of characters who vary from the ordinary to the heroic to an Ahablike crewman who teetered on the brink of insanity A tale of hope survival and discovery Voyage of the Manteno is the true story of two harrowing expeditions in the late 1990s
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A true account of a voyage into antiquity For five months famed researcher sailor and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and crew traced the trade routes of civilizations that flourished a thousand years before the birth of Christ on a reed ship
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Now a major motion picture KonTiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahls astonishing threemonth voyage across the PacificKonTiki is the record of an astonishing adventure across the Pacific Ocean Intrigued by Polynesian folklore biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east He decided to prove his theory by building a boat using the materials that would have been available to those preColumbian sailors and duplicating their legendary voyage On April 28 1947 Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a raft built from balsa wood bamboo and hemp After three months and 4300 nautical miles on the open sea they sighted landthe Polynesian island of Puka Puka Translated into sixtyfive languages KonTiki is a classic inspiring tale of daring and couragea magnificent saga of men against the sea This edition includes a foreword by the author and a unique visual essay of the voyage
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Signed by adventurer Thor Heyerdahl Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition
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Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl has pioneered participated in and observed IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADAM is an account of life where personal experiences of a dramatic and emotional nature secret missions during the war and nearfatal accidents are woven together with his views on religious fatih politics and ecology It is a book that focuses on the authors own remarkable life and also brings us back to the dawn of civilization and out into the future Thor Heyerdahl has spent a long lifetime wandering in the footsteps of mankind He invites the reader to participate in that journey by sharing generously the details of his private and public life his accumulated wisdom and his friendships with a wide range of influential world leaders such as Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev
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Kontiki fue el nombre de la balsa utilizada por el explorador noruego Thor Heyerdahl 19142002 en su expedición de 1947 por el océano Pacífico desde Sudamérica hasta la Polinesia El nombre de la embarcación se debía al dios solar de los incas Viracocha de quien se decía que antiguamente había llevado el nombre de KonTiki KonTiki es también el nombre del libro que escribió Heyerdahl sobre su experiencia Heyerdahl sostenía que pobladores procedentes de Sudamérica podrían haber llegado hasta la Polinesia ya en tiempos precolombinos El propósito de Heyerdahl era demostrar la posibilidad de que el poblamiento de la Polinesia se hubiese llevado a cabo por vía marítima desde América del Sur en balsas idénticas a la usada durante la expedición y movidas únicamente por las mareas las corrientes y la fuerza del viento que es casi constante en dirección esteoeste a lo largo del Ecuador No obstante la expedición dispuso de ciertos elementos como una radio relojes mapas sextantes y cuchillos aunque los mismos no fueron relevantes a la hora de probar que una balsa como la utilizada podía realizar la travesía La expedición KonTiki fue financiada mediante préstamos y contó con donaciones de parte del ejército de Estados Unidos Heyerdahl viajó tiempo antes a Perú donde junto con un pequeño grupo de personas y dentro del espacio provisto por las autoridades nacionales se dedicó a la construcción de la balsa Para ello se emplearon troncos de madera balsa y otros materiales autóctonos y se mantuvo el estilo de construcción indígena tal como se observó en las ilustraciones dejadas por los conquistadores españoles La travesía comenzó el 28 de abril de 1947 Heyerdahl y otros cinco integrantes viajaron durante 101 días a lo largo de casi 7000 km por el océano Pacífico hasta llegar a un arrecife en el atolón de Raroia en las islas Tuamotu el 7 de agosto de 1947 Toda la tripulación llegó a tierra sana y salva
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Thor Heyerdahl wrote these words when he was twentythree years old living in the Marquesas Islands At the time he intended never to return to civilization FATUHIVA is the record of an earlylife experiment the exciting highspirited adventure of a great scientist who followed in the footsteps of Gauguin in search of a Garden of Eden man in his primitive naturalness
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Historical Summary by Thor Heyerdahl Paddington Press LTD signed by Fred Picker
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Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl has pioneered participated in and observed IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ADAM is an account of life where personal experiences of a dramatic and emotional nature secret missions during the war and nearfatal accidents are woven together with his views on religious fatih politics and ecology It is a book that focuses on the authors own remarkable life and also brings us back to the dawn of civilization and out into the future Thor Heyerdahl has spent a long lifetime wandering in the footsteps of mankind He invites the reader to participate in that journey by sharing generously the details of his private and public life his accumulated wisdom and his friendships with a wide range of influential world leaders such as Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev
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Presents Heyerdahls original research into ancient oceanic voyages including the KonTiki and Ra expeditions which support his theories about prehistoric voyagers traveling across the southern Atlantic to Mexico
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Dust jacket notes The Acali Experiment an international bestseller is the story of an unprecedented group experiment in human behavior and a unique 101day sea adventure the Acali raft expedition of 1973 As a volunteer participant in Thor Heyerdahls Ra I and Ra II papyrus raft expeditions anthropologist Santiago Genoves realized that a minimal and isolated raft at sea provides an ideal laboratory of human behavior To explore the sources of violence and conflict under such stressful and inescapable conditions Genoves undertook the building of a raft and conducted a worldwide search for the eleven volunteers of contrasting backgrounds Algerian Israeli American Japanese Swedish Cypriot Mexican Uruguayan and Angolan who would float from the Canary Islands to Mexico on a raft measuring only 40 by 23 feet with a cabin less than 13 feet square The public speculated wildly about what would happen on board the sex raft as it was immediately labelled by the international press This is the story of what did happen from the inside and what it signified outside More than one sociologist remarked that 101 days at sea would be equivalent to twelve to fifteen years on land and that prediction is certainly proven true as Genoves log of the days on board unfolds Three times the raft is on the brink of destruction one participant attempts suicide one contemplates murder one is stricken with appendicitis Isolated amid the beauty of the ocean with no turning back the volunteers are confronted with harrowing natural dangers sharks Portuguese menofwar hurricanes and more as well as human ones Through a wealth of research and tests carried out under the supervision of a body of 100 specialists Genoves obtained uniquely valuable data It yields striking and often surprising insights into the relation between aggression and sex family personality space roles leadership intelligence communication and more
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Kontiki fue el nombre de la balsa utilizada por el explorador noruego Thor Heyerdahl 19142002 en su expedición de 1947 por el océano Pacífico desde Sudamérica hasta la Polinesia El nombre de la embarcación se debía al dios solar de los incas Viracocha de quien se decía que antiguamente había llevado el nombre de KonTiki KonTiki es también el nombre del libro que escribió Heyerdahl sobre su experiencia Heyerdahl sostenía que pobladores procedentes de Sudamérica podrían haber llegado hasta la Polinesia ya en tiempos precolombinos El propósito de Heyerdahl era demostrar la posibilidad de que el poblamiento de la Polinesia se hubiese llevado a cabo por vía marítima desde América del Sur en balsas idénticas a la usada durante la expedición y movidas únicamente por las mareas las corrientes y la fuerza del viento que es casi constante en dirección esteoeste a lo largo del Ecuador No obstante la expedición dispuso de ciertos elementos como una radio relojes mapas sextantes y cuchillos aunque los mismos no fueron relevantes a la hora de probar que una balsa como la utilizada podía realizar la travesía La expedición KonTiki fue financiada mediante préstamos y contó con donaciones de parte del ejército de Estados Unidos Heyerdahl viajó tiempo antes a Perú donde junto con un pequeño grupo de personas y dentro del espacio provisto por las autoridades nacionales se dedicó a la construcción de la balsa Para ello se emplearon troncos de madera balsa y otros materiales autóctonos y se mantuvo el estilo de construcción indígena tal como se observó en las ilustraciones dejadas por los conquistadores españoles La travesía comenzó el 28 de abril de 1947 Heyerdahl y otros cinco integrantes viajaron durante 101 días a lo largo de casi 7000 km por el océano Pacífico hasta llegar a un arrecife en el atolón de Raroia en las islas Tuamotu el 7 de agosto de 1947 Toda la tripulación llegó a tierra sana y salva
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This handsome volume is the story of Thor Heyerdahls love of a mysteryand of an island and its people Over thirty years ago from 1989 the man who did such important pioneering work in KonTiki wrote another bestselling book AkuAku about Easter Island More recently Heyerdahl was invited to return to Easter Island and there confronted the conundrum of the famous haunting statues that stud the lovely island massive and mysterious How were they made How were they moved What did the natives mean when they had said those many years earlier that the statues walked Who made themand where did the Easter Islanders themselves come from What did earlier visitors discoveror believe It is characteristic of Dr Heyerdahls many explorations that his research his theories his conclusions all are entwined with objectives greater than mere adventure Just as his expeditions have been partly in pursuit and proof of his theories that early man traveled further and faster than others had previously suspected and that the peoples of many cultures can work together peacefully his probes into the past are coupled with an enduring endearing convictionnever before displayed better than in this volumethat just as we must avoid prejudice in the present we should not look down on the peoples of the pastfor they and we have more in common than it might seem
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KonTiki is the record of an astonishing adventure a journey 4300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft Intrigued by Polynesian folklore biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east led by the mythical hero KonTiki He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage On April 28 1947 Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft After three suspenseful months on the open sea alone among raging storms whales and countless sharks they sighted land the polynesian island of Puka PukaTranslated into 65 languages read by millions all over the world KonTiki is a classic inspiring tale of daring and courage a magnificent saga of men against the sea
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