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...
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Thor Heyerdahl
1914-
Norwegian anthropologist and explorer who led several transoceanic voyages aboard primitive vessels to prove the possibility of ancient sea migrations. During his 1947 Kon-Tiki ex...
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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...
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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...
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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 are...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Wordsworth
Thor Heyerdahl's latest feat is to have reconstructed a papyrus ship from Egyptian tomb-reliefs and crossed the Atlantic in it with a polyglot crew, a s...
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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 Exp...
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Bibby
Let it be said immediately that Thor Heyerdahl has pulled it off again. He has written a superb adventure-book ["The Ra Expeditions"] about a superb adve...
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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 effort...
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Critical Essay by Philip Snow
Two unique voyages, three ponderous books of scientific probings: what more can Heyerdahl do? He can continue to produce entertaining books.
Fatu-Hiva is of the same qual...
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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 buo...
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Critical Essay by Robert Trumbull
["Fatu-Hiva"] is an attention-riveting escape book as well as a revealing, if unnecessarily preachy, essay on what white men have done to a once happy S...
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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 e...
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Critical Essay by Jo-ann D. Suleiman
[In Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations], one of the last of the world's great explorers synthesiz...
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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 evoluti...
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Critical Essay by Harry Gilroy
[The saga of "Kon-Tiki"] is a revelation of how exciting science can become when it inspires a man with the heart of Leif Ericsson and the merry story-tell...
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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.
Th...
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Critical Essay by Roland Sawyer
[Kon-Tiki] is a mystery story—although there is no crime beyond the polite defiance of "sound advice," no plot except a problem of long-distance tr...
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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 have...
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Critical Essay by Kent Bush
[In "American Indians in the Pacific"] Heyerdahl marshals exceedingly convincing visual evidence of pre-Columbian American Indian influences in the Pacific. I...
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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 emplo...
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Critical Essay by Glyn Daniel
Thor Heyerdahl, whose Kon-Tiki expedition captured the young imagination of the world, visited Easter Island in the last few years and with a party of arachæologis...
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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 d...
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Critical Essay by Philip Morrison
Thor Heyerdahl made his voyage on the balsa raft in defense of a theory, the theory of the Pacific as a highway by which Peruvian men and ideas came to Polynesia. [Se...
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Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl
