Footsteps of adam an autobiography

Loading interface About the author. Thor Heyerdahl 87 books followers. Thor Heyerdahl October 6,Larvik, Norway — April 18,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, miles 8, km by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.

All his legendary expeditions are shown in the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo. As a young child, Thor Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology. He created a small museum in his childhood home, with a Vipera berus as the main attraction. He studied Zoology and Geography at University of Oslo. At the same time, he privately studied Polynesian culture and history, consulting what was then the world's largest private collection of books and papers on Polynesia, owned by Bjarne Kropelien, a wealthy wine merchant in Oslo.

This collection was later purchased by the University of Oslo Library from Kropelien's heirs and was attached to the Kon-Tiki Museum research department. After seven terms and consultations with experts in Berlin, a project was developed and sponsored by his zoology professors, Kristine Bonnevie and Hjalmar Broch. He was to visit some isolated Pacific island groups and study how the local footsteps of adam an autobiography had found their way there.

Just before sailing together to the Marquesas Islands inhe married his first wife, Liv Coucheron-Torp b. Though she is conspicuously absent from many of his papers and talks, Liv participated in nearly all of Thor's journeys, with the exception of the Kon-Tiki Expedition. They in turn had three daughters; Annette, Marian and Helene Elisabeth.

This marriage also ended in divorce, in In Thor Heyerdahl married for the third time, to Jacqueline Beer b. Thor Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage inas part of a six-member crew. The voyage, called the Tangaroa Expedition, was intended as a tribute to Thor Heyerdahl, as well as a means to monitor the Pacific Ocean's environment.

A film about the voyage is in preparation. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 17 of 17 reviews. Aylin Alpustun. I remember buying the book at the Kon Tiki Museum's shop in Oslo way back in It took me a good six years to pick it up and get reading.

In all honesty, the subject matter of the book, the biography of a Norwegian seafarer, is not which excites me much. And yes the chapters which relayed the expeditions in great detail moved pretty slow. It is incredible that Thor Heyerdahl could recall such detail after so many years. However I must admit I was captivated by his determination and his attempt to test various theories under such primitive conditions, looking at civilisations from the perspective of an outsider.

I was intrigued by the philosophical answers and the tie in with the different religions and civilisations. My greatest take from the book was how we have managed to complicate everything that was once very simple in our existence and that we would be wise to note that the most advanced culture is rarley one at the top. Lacivard Mammadova. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker.

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Metropolitan Museum Cleveland Museum of Art. His book about this adventure became an international hit. InHeyerdahl led an archaelogical expedition to the Galapagos Islands. Two years later, he traveled to Easter Island. In his later years, Heyerdahl excavated pyramids in Peru and the Canary Islands. He died in Purchase options and add-ons.

Thor Heyerdahl is one of the greatest explorers of our day. At the age of 84 he has chosen to take a journey through his memories. This is not a chronological autobiography but rather an epic exploration of the world and the amazing events that Heyerdahl has pioneered, participated in and observed. It is a book that focuses on the author's own remarkable life, and also brings us back to the dawn of civilization and out into the future.

Thor Heyerdahl has spent a long lifetime wandering in the footsteps of mankind. He invites the reader to participate in that journey by sharing generously the details of his private and public life, his accumulated wisdom, and his friendships with a wide range of influential world leaders such as Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev.

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