Norwegian Adventurer Heyerdahl Dies

AP | DOUG MELLGREN

[Travis McGee]

Yes, I'm pretty sure he did. He suffered from TB most of his adult life and died young.

[The Great Satan]

Yes. The poem, Requiem, I posted in #29 is R. L. Stevens' self-penned epitaph. It marks his grave "on a high hill in Samoa," for those who remember their Heinlein.

[ThreeOfSeven]

I enjoyed reading about Heyerdahl's expeditions, first Kon-Tiki, and later Ra and Ra II. Those armchair adventures were too long ago.

[wardaddy]

I just remember his great adventure books as a boy....sort of like Tom Sawyer in a tropical Pirate ridden environment....with a little Dickens thrown in.

[logician2u]

Kon Tiki was a great adventure, but I found Aku-Aku much more fascinating, perhaps because I felt something in common with those Great Stone Heads.

A hundred years from now, Heyerdahl's achievements and writing will be celebrated as testimony to a man's determination to learn the truth about anthropology, as much as it can be known.

Margaret Mead, on the other hand, will be all but forgotten.

Deservedly.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for posting it.

[Soul Citizen]

"Heyerdahl conceived his theory during a year spent on the Pacific island of Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas group. He noticed that stone figures of the Polynesian chief-god Tiki in the jungle were "remarkably like the monoliths left by extinct civilizations in South America.""

How ironic, I just completed carving my Tiki.

It will be named after Thor Heyerdahl the Norweigan Adventurer!

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 04/18/2002. Thanks kattracks, for this and all you gave us while you were here.