Atelier Editions - Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages Of The Sun The Kon - Tiki Museum Archive - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: An archival delve into the remarkable life expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon - Tiki Expedition Norwegian archaeologist anthropologist migration theorist author and explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914 2002) spent decades substantiating unorthodox migration theories with equally unconventional research methodologies: namely practicable experiments that employed the construction of ancient vessels driven across open oceans and waterways to retrace the movement and settlements of our ancestors. With October 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl's extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa - wood raft Kon - Tiki from coastal South America to Polynesia across the Pacific Ocean an enviable opportunity arises to reexplore Heyerdahl's innovative yet frequently contested theories and expeditions. Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo's Kon - Tiki Museum's extensive Heyerdahl archive Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun assembles a wealth of little - known and previously unseen correspondence expedition logbooks journals and photographs. Offering readers new and unexamined narratives from an explorer famed for his radical ideas and vehement rejections of abstracted academic theory Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun reviews the enduring relevance of the explorer's research and assesses it within larger narratives of modern archaeological anthropological marine science and migration research; international conservation initiatives; evolving globalization; and essential human nature symbiosis.
Title: Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages Of The Sun The Kon - Tiki Museum Archive
Brand: Atelier Editions
Barcode: 9781954957992
Pages: 256 Pages, 120 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 3/21/2023
Category: Geographical Discovery & Exploration