Heyerdahl, Thor

Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
391 editions published between 1948 and 2010 in 36 languages and held by 4,683 libraries worldwide
This journey by raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands was made to test the author's theories of the origin of the Polynesian people and travel by raft between these places by means of riding the ocean currents and winds.

Aku-Aku, the secret of Easter Island by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
38 editions published between 1957 and 2001 in 14 languages and held by 3,025 libraries worldwide
The author and explorer of Kon-Tiki fame here recounts for the layman his archeological adventures on Easter island, where his expedition uncovered many facts about the island's giant statues, secret caves, ancient stone-carving natives, cannibalism, and civil wars.

The Ra expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
55 editions published between 1970 and 2009 in 14 languages and held by 2,938 libraries worldwide
The author recounts the planning for his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in an Egyptian reed boat and describes the voyage made by himself and his crew.

Fatu-Hiva : back to nature by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
33 editions published between 1974 and 1984 in English and French and held by 2,326 libraries worldwide
The story of Heyerdahl and his wife's first Pacific adventure in 1936. Fatu-Hiva lay outside the shipping lanes; there were no white inhabitants and no contact with the outside world.

The Tigris expedition : in search of our beginnings by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
33 editions published between 1979 and 1993 in 6 languages and held by 2,129 libraries worldwide
Describes the expedition that retraced the trade routes that may have existed between Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Egypt a thousand years before Christ.

Early man and the ocean : a search for the beginnings of navigation and seaborne civilizations by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
6 editions published between 1978 and 1980 in English and held by 1,669 libraries worldwide

Easter Island--the mystery solved by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
16 editions published between 1989 and 1992 in 5 languages and held by 1,348 libraries worldwide
Discusses the mysteries of Easter Island including how the statues were made and moved, and where the Easter Islanders themselves came from?

The Maldive mystery by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
14 editions published between 1986 and 1988 in 6 languages and held by 1,290 libraries worldwide

Green was the earth on the seventh day by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
32 editions published between 1991 and 1999 in 5 languages and held by 989 libraries worldwide
A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise - a natural and unspoiled world that they sought and, to a degree, found in the South Pacific. It was the first of many journeys that would lead to expeditions and explorations, to a vocation, to the testing of theories against the currents of oceans and history, to books that would include Kon-Tiki, Aku-Aku, and Easter Island, and would bring him worldwide fame and renown. This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is the key to his future life. We see the early emergence of certain of his basic ideas and beliefs: that ancient man, previously believed to he primitive and confined by the oceans, knew more and traveled farther than had been suspected; that the natural world was even then endangered and was well worth preserving; that individuals and peoples could live peacefully together, find common problems and uncommon joys. This is a love story, an adventure story, a documentary based on journals the young Thor kept at the time, and a prophet's brief but unrestrained, unabashed sermon-polemic on why the seas, like the cities, should no longer be unthinkingly polluted in the pursuit of profits, and why the contempt for nature is as much a crime against the planet as a capital offense against humanity.

American Indians in the Pacific; the theory behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl ( Book )
20 editions published between 1952 and 1956 in English and held by 840 libraries worldwide