Thor Heyerdahl

English translation made under the personal supervision of the author.

The Secret of Easter Island

Aku-aku

The Ra Expeditions

Expedition Ra

Early Man and the Ocean

Edwin N. Ferdon

Reports

Søren Richter

Soren Richter

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Nansen (Fram expedition, 1893-96); Sverdrup (second Fram expedition, 1893-1902); Amundsen (Gjoa and South Pole expeditions); aircraft in polar explorations.

Great Norwegian Expeditions

Sjøveier til Polynesia

på leting etter begynnelsen

Tigris

Per Lillieström

på sporet av vår fortid

Jakten på Odin

An account of Heyerdahl's journey on the rivers, oceans, and seas that connected the various centers of ancient Middle Eastern civilization, which are seen to have exchanged many aspects of their economics, arts, sciences, and ways of life

In Search of Our Beginnings

The Tigris Expedition

Back to Nature

Fatu-Hiva

Daniel Howard Sandweiss

Alfredo Narváez

"Well-illustrated synthesis of multi-year excavations at a city of the Lambayeque culture extending over 220 hectares with 26 major pyramids, and founded ca. AD 1100"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City

Pyramids of Túcume

“One of the great adventures of our time.” —Life “Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? . . . Reply at once.” That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific theory. On a primitive raft made of forty-foot balsa logs and named “Kon-Tiki” in honor of a legendary sun king, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions deliberately risked their lives to show that the ancient Peruvians could have made the 4,300-mile voyage to the Polynesian islands on a similar craft. For three months, the bold young men made their way across the pacific at the complete mercy of the ocean. They encountered storms that threatened to tear their raft apart, whales large enough to sink them in the blink of an eye, and sharks ready to feast on any man unfortunate enough to fall overboard. In the true spirit of adventure, they held on until finally making landfall on a remote Polynesian island, proving Heyerdahl’s theory possible after all. On every page of this true chronicle—from the actual building of the raft through all the dangerous and comic adventures on the sea, to the spectacular crash landing and the native islanders’ hula dances—each reader will find a wholesome and spellbinding escape from the twenty-first century.

Across the Pacific by Raft

Kon-Tiki

Den norske etnolog og zoolog Thor Heyerdahl og hans fem mand store besætnings oplevelser, da de i 1947 på ca. 100 dage sejlede over Stillehavet fra Peru til Polynesien på en balsatømmerflåde for at bevise at befolkningen på Polynesien oprindelig var udvandret fra Sydamerika.

Kon-Tiki ekspeditionen

Thor Heyerdahl

About

Books

Join the club