Edited by Lucy Kingett. Introduction by Sonia Haoa Cardinali. Text by Kingston Trinder. Afterword by Atholl Anderson.
An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author and explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) spent decades substantiating unorthodox migration theories, with equally unconventional research methodologies: namely, practicable experiments that employed the construction of ancient vessels, driven across open oceans and waterways to retrace the movement and settlements of our ancestors. With October 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl’s extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa-wood raft, Kon-Tiki, from coastal South America to Polynesia across the Pacific Ocean, an enviable opportunity arises to reexplore Heyerdahl’s innovative yet frequently contested theories and expeditions. Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum’s extensive Heyerdahl archive, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun assembles a wealth of little-known and previously unseen correspondence, expedition logbooks, journals and photographs. Offering readers new and unexamined narratives from an explorer famed for his radical ideas and vehement rejections of abstracted academic theory, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun reviews the enduring relevance of the explorer’s research and assesses it within larger narratives of modern archaeological, anthropological, marine science and migration research; international conservation initiatives; evolving globalization; and essential human–nature symbiosis.
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“We could almost feel … suspended in space; all our world was empty and blue; there was no fixed point … but the tropical sun … golden and warm.” So wrote Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author and explorer Thor Heyerdahl, whose 1947 journey across the Pacific Ocean from South America to Polynesia in a balsa-wood raft is documented and explored in Atelier Éditions’ deeply researched new release, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun. Drawn from the archives of the Kon-Tiki Museum, this beautifully designed and considered volume brings together correspondence, expedition logbooks, journals, photographs and other previously unseen documents. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 80 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $65 GBP £42.00 ISBN: 9781954957992 PUBLISHER: Atelier Éditions AVAILABLE: 3/21/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun The Kon-Tiki Museum Archive
Published by Atelier Éditions. Edited by Lucy Kingett. Introduction by Sonia Haoa Cardinali. Text by Kingston Trinder. Afterword by Atholl Anderson.
An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki Expedition
Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author and explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) spent decades substantiating unorthodox migration theories, with equally unconventional research methodologies: namely, practicable experiments that employed the construction of ancient vessels, driven across open oceans and waterways to retrace the movement and settlements of our ancestors.
With October 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl’s extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa-wood raft, Kon-Tiki, from coastal South America to Polynesia across the Pacific Ocean, an enviable opportunity arises to reexplore Heyerdahl’s innovative yet frequently contested theories and expeditions. Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum’s extensive Heyerdahl archive, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun assembles a wealth of little-known and previously unseen correspondence, expedition logbooks, journals and photographs.
Offering readers new and unexamined narratives from an explorer famed for his radical ideas and vehement rejections of abstracted academic theory, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun reviews the enduring relevance of the explorer’s research and assesses it within larger narratives of modern archaeological, anthropological, marine science and migration research; international conservation initiatives; evolving globalization; and essential human–nature symbiosis.
