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Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages.
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" The ethnographic evidence for these claims is outlined in Heyerdahl's book Aku Aku: The Secret of Easter Island.
Anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis also criticised Heyerdahl's theory in his book The Wayfinders, which explores the history of Polynesia.
Heyerdahl's popular book on the subject, Aku-Aku was another international best-seller.
Both the first book detailing the Odin project, Ingen grenser from 1999, and the second book, Jakten på Odin from 2001, were met with a forceful and detailed response from leading academics in which the reasons were laid out to the wider public as to why Heyerdahl's theory in their view was false.
* Maal og minne 1, 2002: Review of Heyerdahl's book ' Jakten på Odin.
Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerdahl's book and the Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicling his adventures.
Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller.
The book was based on Heyerdahl's original report Paa Jakt efter Paradiset, which was published in Norway in 1938, but because of the outbreak of World War II was never translated and rather forgotten.
The book begins with Heyerdahl's optimistic idea that paradise could still be found.
Mr. Muhammad Lutfee is seen holding this Makara head in one of the pictures of Thor Heyerdahl's book.
Heyerdahl's and about
On Heyerdahl's visit to Baku in 1999, he lectured at the Academy of Sciences about the history of ancient Nordic Kings.
Heyerdahl's intention was to prove the veracity of the account of Snorri Sturluson in the Ynglinga saga, written in the 13th century, about the origin of the Norse royal dynasties, and the pre-Christian Norse gods.
* Testing Heyerdahl's Theories about Kon-Tiki 60 Years Later: Tangaroa Pacific Voyage ( Summer 2006 ) Azerbaijan International, Vol 14: 4 ( Winter 2006 )
Heyerdahl's and expedition
* The ' Tigris ' expedition, with Heyerdahl's war protest Azerbaijan International, Vol.
Mr. Denniston's 1948 DX-pedition was to the Bahamas and was called " Gon-Waki " ala Thor Heyerdahl's " Kon-Tiki " expedition the previous year.
It was amongst the provisions of the crew of Thor Heyerdahl's " Ra II " expedition to cross the Atlantic aboard a papyrus ship using the Canary Current in 1970.
None of them have been properly investigated, although a Makara ( sea monster ) head in stone was found during Thor Heyerdahl's expedition.
Heyerdahl's and Kon-Tiki
* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
* Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki crossed the Pacific Ocean proving the practical possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
* Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage in 2006 as part of a six-member crew.
* Kon-Tiki Museum-Thor Heyerdahl's Research Foundation
* August 7-Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile ( 6900-km ) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.
The name Contiki comes from Thor Heyerdahl's famous Kon-Tiki raft.
Heyerdahl's and South
However, recent scientific investigation that compares the DNA of some of the Polynesian islands with natives from Peru suggests that there is some merit to Heyerdahl's ideas and that while Polynesia was colonized from Asia, some contact with South America also existed.
Heyerdahl's and has
, Heyerdahl's Odin hypothesis has never been validated or tried successfully by any historian, archaeologist, or linguist.
Heyerdahl's and been
In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an " oven " by the " Long Ears ," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).
Heyerdahl's and into
The excavations performed in Tanais, near the entry of the Don into the Black Sea, have shown that Tanais actually did have a population at the time of the supposed emigration of the Æsir ( sometime around 60 B. C., according to Heyerdahl's interpretation of the references to Roman expansion into the Caucasus ).
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* July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.
After seven terms and consultations with experts in Berlin, a project was developed and sponsored by Heyerdahl's zoology professors, Kristine Bonnevie and Hjalmar Broch.
Blood samples taken in 1971 and 2008 from Easter Islanders without any European or other external descent were analysed in a 2011 study, which concluded that the evidence supported some aspects of Heyerdahl's hypothesis.
Heyerdahl's claims aside, however, there is no evidence that the Tlingit, Haida or other British Columbian tribes have an affinity with Polynesians.
Heyerdahl's theory of Polynesian origins never gained acceptance among anthropologists.
* Heyerdahl's expeditions were spectacular and caught the public imagination.
Heyerdahl himself agreed to the founding of the institute and it aims to promote and continue to develop Heyerdahl's ideas and principles.
The institute is located in Heyerdahl's birth town in Larvik, Norway.
Since then, they have purchased and renovated Heyerdahl's childhood home, arranged a yearly raft regatta in his honour at the end of summer and begun to develop a Heyerdahl centre.
Alongside the raft, the museum houses various artefacts related to Heyerdahl's other expeditions and a changing program of temporary exhibitions explores his life and work.
The Search for Odin ( Norwegian: Jakten på Odin ) is the project title of Thor Heyerdahl's last series of archaeological excavations, which took place in Azov ( Tanais ) in Russia.
Heyerdahl's Odin project was subjected to fierce criticism from Norwegian academics within the fields of research upon which the theory touches.
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Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.
To the newspapers he talked about his unquiet life, about his wish to be a newspaperman once more, about the prevalence of American slang in British speech, about the loquacity of the English and the impossibility of finding quiet in a railway carriage, about his plans to wander for two years `` unless stopped and made to write another book ''.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
Screwed, stewed, and tattooed, as Krim might say after reading a book about sailors.
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
William Sansom writes only about Europe in this book and frequently of such familiar places as London, Vienna, the French Riviera and the Norwegian fjords.
the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.
There are two things here about Surviving in the Wilderness, and a book called ' Tom Swift and His Speedy Canoe ' ; ;
She asked him and, laughing, she added, `` I was nervous about buying a book with a title like that, but I knew you'd like it ''.
* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".
* A book about flora and / or fauna of an area or region ( see for example Atlases of the flora and fauna of Britain and Ireland )
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
Simultaneous with debates about social theology and ethics, the Anglican Communion has debated prayer book revision and the acceptable grounds for achieving full communion with non-Anglican churches.
He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.
In 2008, Penny Sartori, an intensive care nurse from Swansea, published a book about near death experiences following 10 years of research.
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
Alcott asked Niles if he would publish a book of short stories by his daughter ; instead, he suggested she write a book about girls.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.
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