His writing quickly became more refined and his content more and more educational, so much so that he quickly became a reference in the field of outdoor activities. He used to illustrate his stories with his own photographs and drawings. He began to tell his adventures in the weekly newspaper of his region and in various magazines. He sometimes left accompanied by his friend Erik Hesselberg with whom he explored new regions in the Jotunheim massif and tried new survival techniques. He met a hermit who transmitted him the love of nature. He takes advantage of Norwegian nature and the summer vacations spent with his family in a log cabin in the wilderness to discover the mountains of the region, in which he trains to live alone (with his Greenlandic dog Kazan), in autonomy for increasingly long periods. He quickly built his own animal "museum" in an outbuilding of his father's brewery.Ī sportsman from his earliest childhood, Thor was particularly fond of nature, in which he enjoyed cross-country skiing, sledding and long hikes. Very young, he already dreamed of exploring the seas of the world and discovering its ancestral cultures. Repeated visits to these museums and his mother's studies of zoology, folk art and primitive cultures, who was particularly interested in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, quickly sparked the imagination of young Thor. Steingata 7 i Larvik - barndomshjemmet til Thor Heyerdahl, 27 December 2008, Arnstein Rønning, Own Work ( CC BY-SA 3.0) Son of Thor Heyerdahl (1869-1957), a local brewmaster and manager of a mineral water factory, and Alison Lyng (1873-1965), who headed the local museum association, he came from a local upper-class family. Thor Heyerdahl was born on Octoin Larvik, a small coastal town south of Oslo. ![]() Job : Norwegian navigator, ethnographer and anthropologist His Youth Marked by a Deep Love of Nature Identity Cardĭied : Ap( aged 87), Colla Micheri, ItalyĬhildren: 5 - Bjørn Heyerdahl, Marian Heyerdahl, Annette Heyerdahl, Helene Elisabeth Heyerdahl and Thor Heyerdahl Jr. In particular, he contributed to popularizing the idea that there were probably contacts and therefore transoceanic links between the ancient cultures of the world. He alienated the scientific community with his work, but he participated largely in the popularization of these themes and of science in general. ![]() Throughout his life, he tried to overturn the scientific consensus on the origin of the Polynesian peoples by trying to prove that they did not originate in East Asia but in South America. Twenty years later, he repeated the feat with the boats Ra II and Tigris, this time made of reeds, with which he crossed the Atlantic with Ra II and sailed along the gulfs of Oman, Persia and finally Aden with Tigris. The Norwegian navigator, ethnographer and anthropologist is notably known for having crossed in 1947 a good part of the Pacific Ocean on an open boat, the Kon-tiki, built in balsa wood, in order to question the origins of the Polynesian people. ![]() Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002) is one of the greatest explorers of the 20th century, and surely one of the most controversial.
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