Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002)
Auteur van De Kon-tiki Expeditie : 8000 kilometer per vlot over de Grote Ocean
Over de Auteur
"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 toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: L'explorateur norvégien Thor Heyerdahl vers 1980
Werken van Thor Heyerdahl
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations (1978) 100 exemplaren
Kon-Tiki museum : Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway : Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History (1995) 5 exemplaren
På jakt efter paradiset; et år på en sydhavsø 3 exemplaren
The Maldive mystery 2 exemplaren
Laßt sie endlich sprechen : die amerikanischen Ureinwohner erzählen ihre Geschichte (1997) 2 exemplaren
Aku Aku [videorecording] 2 exemplaren
Hải trình Kon–Tiki 1 exemplaar
KON TIKI a través del pacífico en una balsa 1 exemplaar
Экспедиция Кон-Тики / Ра 1 exemplaar
La expedición de la "Kon-Tiki" 1 exemplaar
Archaeological evidence of pre-Spanish visits to the Galápagos Islands : English and Spanish texts (1990) 1 exemplaar
Paradīzi meklējot 1 exemplaar
Readers Digest Biography 1 exemplaar
Sjövägarna till Polynesien 1 exemplaar
Mistérios das Antigas Rotas Oceânicas 1 exemplaar
Z kontynentu na kontynent 1 exemplaar
Oppdageren 1 exemplaar
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- 1914-10-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2002-04-18
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- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
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- Larvik, Norway
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- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
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- Larvik, Norway
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Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy - Opleiding
- Oslo University
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- 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) (toon 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) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander of the Order of St. Olav, Norway (1951, with star, 1970)
Royal Geographical Society, London (1964)
Academy Award (1951)
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Op 28 april 1947 vertrekken Heyerdahl en zijn vijf expeditieleden uit Peru op een vlot van balsahout dat ze naar Incamodel hebben gebouwd. De expeditie duurt in totaal 101 dagen en het vlot legt in die periode 6880 kilometer af. Ze landen uiteindelijk op het atol Raroia, in de Tuamotueilandengroep ten zuiden van de Marquesaseilanden in Frans-Polynesië.… (meer)