Thor Heyerdahl, 1914-2002. Photo credit: World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna, May 4, 1951 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-USZ62-122921)

Thor Heyerdahl

Author of Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft

Also known as: Heyerdahl, T. Heyerdahl, hor Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdal, Thor Hyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl ... (see complete list), Thol Heyerdahl, Thor Heyderdahl, Тур Хейердал, Thor; Lyon, F.H. Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl; Translator F.H. Lyon, Thor; Translated By F. H. Lyon Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl; F.H. Lyon (Translated by), Thor, sos.antropolog og zoolog n Heyerdahl, Thor (Translated By F.H. Lyon), Illustrated Heyerd

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Books by Thor Heyerdahl

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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft 1138 copies, 14 reviews
AKU-AKU: The Secret of Easter Island 331 copies, 4 reviews
The Ra Expeditions 228 copies, 3 reviews
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature 140 copies, 3 reviews
The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings 62 copies, 1 review
The Maldive Mystery 45 copies, 1 review
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and… 29 copies
Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day 27 copies
Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City 24 copies
In the Footsteps of Adam: A Memoir 23 copies
Easter Island: The Mystery Solved 17 copies
KON-TIKI A SPECIAL RAND MCNALLY COLOR EDITION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 16 copies
The art of Easter Island 7 copies
Kon-Tiki Man 6 copies

American Indians in the Pacific 6 copies, 1 review

Jakten p°a Odin : p°a sporet av v°ar fortid 3 copies

Sea Routes to Polynesia 3 copies

Tussen de continenten : archeologische avonturen 3 copies

Skjebnemøte vest for havet: De beseiredes historie 2 copies

På jakt efter paradiset; et år på en sydhavsø 2 copies

Selected from Kon-Tiki 2 copies

Heyerdahls beste 1 copy

A Kon-Tiki-től a Ra-ig egy elmélet kalandja 1 copy

Ekspedycja "Tygrys" : w poszukiwaniu naszych początków 1 copy

KON-TIKI and AKU-AKU The Secret of Easter Island 1 copy

Staré civilizace a oceán 1 copy

Kon Tiki,Ra,Aku Aku 1 copy

Reader's Digest 4 in 1 -The Tigris Expedition etc. 1 copy

Great Norwegian Expeditions 1 copy

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1914-10-06

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2002-04-18

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Commander of the Order of St. Olav, Norway (1951, with star, 1970)

Royal Geographical Society, London (1964)

Academy Award (1951)

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