Thor Heyerdahl Summary

Thor Heyerdahl 1914- Norwegian Explorer and Anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, nature lover and trained zoologist, made his greatest contribution to the field of anthropology, where he advanced highly deb... Read more

Thor Heyerdahl Born October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway Scientist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl has spent much of his life trying to understand the history of people before they left written records. On... Read more

Through his oceanic expeditions on primitive rafts and boats, documented in books, films, and television programs, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl (born 1914) has popularized ideas about commo... Read more

Critical Essay by Alfred Stanford It is the deep connection with nature and a tremendous simplicity that makes ["Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft"] great as few books of our time ar... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement The voyages of Thor Heyerdahl across the Atlantic provide instructive examples of adventures undertaken ostensibly in search of knowledge. In The Ra Ex... Read more

Critical Essay by Timothy Severin [In The Ra Expeditions Heyerdahl's] narrative—and some of his more provocative theories as well—unfold with deceptive ease. The book is an effor... Read more

Critical Essay by Frederick H. Guidry ["Fatu-Hiva"] indefatigably records the details of [Liv and Thor Heyerdahl's] semi-informed leap into another way of life. The account is bu... Read more

Critical Essay by Adrienne Kaeppler [Thor Heyerdahl's] ability to write for the general reader and to capture the imagination of all who have hidden desires to discover lost information about ... Read more

Critical Essay by Toba Korenblum Much of the credit for establishing early man's rightful foothold in history goes to author-adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, who popularized his theory of the evolut... Read more

Critical Essay by John Hemming [In The Tigris Expedition Heyerdahl goes to] the very cradle of Western civilization for the most impressive of all his craft and the most satisfying of his theories. ... Read more

Critical Essay by Wendell C. Bennett [The] daring and dramatic journey [of the Kon-Tiki and her six crewmen] demonstrated beyond any doubt that the pre-European inhabitants of South America could hav... Read more

Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement [Thor Heyerdahl] wrote a book about a raft which will not soon be forgotten. It is unreasonable to expect an equal success when the same gifts are empl... Read more

Critical Essay by John M. Connole Heyerdahl's latest book, "Sea Routes to Polynesia," is a collection of papers and addresses from the years 1951–1964, most of which were ... Read more