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On 28 April 1947, Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail near Callao in Peru on a traditional balsawood raft. After 101 days they reached the island of Raroia in the Tuamoto Archipelago. The book about the expedition was translated into almost 70 different languages and became a bestseller. Heyerdahl’s film about the expedition won an Oscar ...
9 de feb. de 2010 · On May 17, 1970, Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl and a multinational crew set out from Morocco across the Atlantic Ocean in Ra II, a papyrus sailing craft modeled after ancient Egyptian ...
19 de abr. de 2002 · Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer who navigated Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans to bolster his controversial theories of ancient seafaring migrations, dies at age 87 ...
Años después de fascinar al mundo con aquella gesta, Thor Heyerdahl sacó a la luz un libro, el Viaje de la Kon – Tiki, del que se vendió millones de copias convirtiéndole de la noche a la mañana en uno de los clásicos de aventuras más famosos de la historia. Pero me estoy adelantando en demasía.
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4,300 miles (8,000 km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. All his legendary expeditions are shown in the Kon-Tiki ...
Thor Heyerdahl. The famous Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl led the first archaeological expedition to Easter Island in 1955-56. In 1962 he gave a series of lectures to the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography in Stockholm. His lectures can be read in his book, Sea Routes to Polynesia.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas ( Norwegian: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. It recounts Heyerdahl's experiences with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he travelled across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa tree raft. The book was first published in Norway on 2 November 1948, and sold ...
