This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.[...]

In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a natural and unspoiled world on the remote island of Fatu-Hiva in the South Pacific. Based on his orig[...]

"Kon-Tiki" is the record of an astonishing adventure - a journey 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by the [...]

"Kon-Tiki" is the record of an astonishing adventure across the Pacific Ocean. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east. He decided to prove his theory by building a boat us[...]

"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[...]

Fatuhiva: Boka skildrer Thor Heyerdahl og kona Livs bryllupsreise til sydhavsøya Fatuhiva i 1937. Opprinnelig planla de å tilbringe resten av livet på øya og leve som naturmennesker. Slik gikk det ikke, men her ble den første av Heyerdahls vandringsteorier født. Boka forteller om Heyerdahls kj[...]

Thor Heyerdahl's Search for Odin deals with issues related to Heyerdahl's insistence on early man's relationship between the two regions, which was discussed at the Thor Heyerdahl Conference (Baku 2011) by experts in fields such as archaeology, history, music and philology. The forum was a cooperati[...]

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.[...]

PÅ SPORET AV VÅR FORTID Dette er ingen avhandling men en prat mellom to venner som retter teleteknikkens søkelys mot våre norrøne forfedres mørklagde storhetstid. Vi har utnyttet dagens muligheter til en tverrfaglig rundspørring over alle grenser der vi vet det er noe å hente fra de som vet[...]