Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002)
Autor de La expedición de la Kon-Tiki
Sobre El Autor
"This is an enthralling book," Hamilton Lasso wrote in The New Yorker of Kon-Tiki (1948), "and I don't think I can be very far off in calling it the most absorbing sea tale of our time." Heyerdahl, a Norwegian ethnologist, conceived the theory---not then accepted by other scientists---that mostrar más Polynesia may have been originally settled by people who crossed the 4,100 miles of ocean from Peru in rafts made of balsa logs. Kon-Tiki is the story of how he and five others built the raft, as people of the Stone Age could build it, and traveled in it from Peru to a small island east of Tahiti---a "most fascinating description of intelligent courage." Heyerdahl believes that he has at last solved the problem of how natives raised the great statues on Easter Island and has written a most absorbing account of it in Aku-Aku (1958). He has adduced further corroboration of his theory from the findings in The Archaeology of Easter Island (1961). In the spring of 1969, Heyerdahl was engaged in a new experiment---planning to cross the Atlantic from Morocco to Yucatan in a 12-ton papyrus boat that he and others built themselves in the manner of the ancient Egyptians. In spite of general skepticism as to whether the boat, called the Ra, could make the journey without sinking when it became thoroughly water-soaked, Heyerdahl and six others set out in full confidence. They hoped to demonstrate that Egyptians might have made the journey in this manner 4,000 or 5,000 years ago and thus were the precursors of the Incas and Mayas. In July 1969, however, they were forced to abandon their attempt 600 miles short of their goal, near the Virgin Islands, after a series of storms had crippled the Ra. They left it drifting in the hope that it might reach Barbados on its own. Their second attempt, in Ra II, was successful. A subsequent journey in the reed-ship Tigris in 1977--78 was meant to show that such craft could maneuver against the wind and thus complete round-trip journeys through the ancient world via the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. Political conflicts in the region, however, led Heyerdahl and his crew to burn the Tigris in protest. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: L'explorateur norvégien Thor Heyerdahl vers 1980
Obras de Thor Heyerdahl
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations (1978) 100 copias
Kon-Tiki museum : Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway : Institute for Pacific Archaeology and Cultural History (1995) 5 copias
The Maldive mystery 2 copias
Aku Aku [videorecording] 2 copias
Hải trình Kon–Tiki 1 copia
Экспедиция Кон-Тики / Ра 1 copia
La expedición de la "Kon-Tiki" 1 copia
Archaeological evidence of pre-Spanish visits to the Galápagos Islands : English and Spanish texts (1990) 1 copia
Paradīzi meklējot 1 copia
Readers Digest Biography 1 copia
Sjövägarna till Polynesien 1 copia
Z kontynentu na kontynent 1 copia
Oppdageren 1 copia
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Tigris Expedition • The Key to Rebecca • Horowitz and Mrs Washington •… (1980) 3 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-10-06
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2002-04-18
- Lugar de sepultura
- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Noruega
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Larvik, Norway
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy
- Lugares de residencia
- Larvik, Norway
Marquesas Islands
Peru
Tuamotu Islands
Easter Island
Norway (mostrar todos 7)
Colla Micheri, Liguria, Italy - Educación
- Oslo University
- Ocupaciones
- explorer
ethnographer
adventurer - Organizaciones
- Académie des sciences de New York (1960)
Académie norvégienne des sciences (1958)
Association américaine d'anthropologie (1966)
ociété géographique de Norvège (1953)
Société géographique du Pérou (1953)
Société géographique du Brésil (1954) (mostrar todos 11)
Société Royale de Géographie d'Anvers, Belgique (1954)
Société géographique de l'URSS, Moscou, Russie (1964)
ulgarica Geographica Societas, Sofia, Bulgarie (1972)
Explorer's Club, New York (1942)
Société royale de géographie, Londres (Membre ∙ 19 64) - Premios y honores
- Commander of the Order of St. Olav, Norway (1951, with star, 1970)
Royal Geographical Society, London (1964)
Academy Award (1951)
Miembros
Reseñas
Aku-Aku - El Secreto de La Isla de Pascua por Thor Heyerdahl
El secreto de la Isla de Pascua
Habiendo descubierto que los predecesores de los incas y los antiguos habitantes de ciertas regiones de la Polinesia adoraron a un mismo dios solar, llamado Kon-Tiki, el autor del presente libro dedujo que los primeros pobladores de las islas del Pacífico fueron americanos de los tiempos preincaicos. Pero otros investigadores objetaron que en aquella remota época, los aborígenes peruanos solo poseían balsas, con las que era imposible cruzar el Pacífico. Para demostrar la exactitud de su hipótesis, Thor Heyerdahl hizo construir una balsa, fiel imitación de los modelos antiguos, y, en compañía de cinco camaradas, intentó la experiencia y la llevó a feliz término. Thor Heyerdahl es también un escritor notable: posee un admirable don descriptivo, un delicioso humorismo, un estilo claro y vivaz. Este libro, traducido a veinte lenguas, ha alcanzado fabulosas tiradas. Su lectura apasiona igualmente a los jóvenes y a la gente madura, al lector corriente y al erudito.… (más)
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