Thor Heyerdahl, Author Adler & Adler Publishers $19.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-917561-19-1
When the Maldive Islanders converted to Islam in the 12th century, they discarded or destroyed all traces of earlier cultures, thus denying their past. Recent archeological discoveries prompted the government to invite Heyerdahl to examine the...
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Thor Heyerdahl, Author Random House (NY) $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-44093-2
In the mid-'30s, Heyerdahl and his bride, Liv, embarked on a year-long project to study local animals on an oceanic island to find out how they got there. The Heyerdahls selected Fatu-Hiva in the Marquesas; it was lightly populated and so remote...
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Thor Heyerdahl, Author, Christopher Ralling, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $35 (335p) ISBN 978-0-8118-0026-6
In late 1936 explorer Heyerdahl set out from Norway for an island in the South Seas called Fatu Hiva. Eschewing the complications and corruptions of the civilized world, Heyerdahl planned to immerse himself in the ``great anthropological mysteries''
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