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Title: Fatu-Hiva Back to Nature by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0-451-08682-1 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: August, 1976 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $33.65 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Diary of an adventurous man.
Comment: To use Thor's own words...
"There is nothing for modern man to return to. Our wonderful time in the wilderness had given us a taste of what man had abandoned and what mankind was still trying to get even further away from. Progress today can be defined as man's ability to complicate simplicity. Nothing in all the procedure that modern man , helped by all his modern middlemen, goes through before he earns money to buy a fish or a potato will ever be as simple as pulling it out of the water or soil. Without the farmer and the fisherman, modern society would collapse., with all its shops and pipes and wires. The farmers and the fishermen represent the nobility of modern society; they share their crumbs with the rest of us, who run about with papers and screwdrivers attempting to build a better world without a bluprint."
All this author's books are GREAT reads! If you are a city dweller you will especially appreciate his adventures as he asks the question- "Were we meant to live in jungles made of plants or concrete?
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This is a wonderful book that I recieved as a gift from my grandfather. I will always treasure it. It not only tells of Thor Heyerdahl's adventure, but also describes the culture he visits. The book encourages me to follow my own dreams no matter how unusual they may be.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thor Heyerdahl's one year adventure in Fatu Hiva
Comment: This book is more than just an adventure. It is a young man's awakening to his own ideas, his inspriations and would greatly influence his later travels. It is highly illustrated and higly reccomended. I first read it when I first arrived in my own sailboat many years ago at Hanavae Bay. We read aloud from the book as our boat arrived in Fatu Hiva and we visited all the sites that he mentioned in the book. Yes, they really do exist!
But when I reread the story I am also captivated by the love and devotion of his wife Liv. Imagine she married Thor and for their honeymoon they travel to Fatu Hiva to live in the jungle. Such devotion! This is a great adventure novel for both men and women. I cannot believe that it is out of print for now. His words are as exhilirating now as they were when I first read them years ago. On this island Thor saw the remarkable resemblence to the massive stone carvings on Fatu Hiva and to the stone carvings on Easter Island. This adventure would be the one that helped him form his theory of native peoples from South Amercia travelling to the Marquesas not from Polynesia.
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Title: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0671726528 Publisher: Pocket Pub. Date: 01 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Manuiota'a: Journal of a Voyage to the Marquesas Islands by Burgl Lichtenstein, Robert C. Suggs ISBN: 1887747389 Publisher: Pa'eke Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.99 |
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Title: The Ra Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl ISBN: 0045720207 Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia) Pub. Date: January, 1971 |
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