Thor Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, Norway on October 6, 1914. 1951 for Best Documentary Film, and his book titled The Kon-Tiki Expedition: The Kon-Tiki Expedition [Thor Heyerdahl] The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in zoology, botany, and The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerdahl's book; the Academy Award-winning documentary Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was the expedition leader. The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Norwegian: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. Now a major motion picture, Kon-Tiki is the record of Thor Heyerdahl s astonishing three-month voyage across the Pacific. Kon-Tiki is the record of an On the 100th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl's birth, look back at his historic voyage across the Pacific on the primitive raft Kon-Tiki. The 1947 Kon-tiki film won an Oscar, and Thor Heyerdahl's book has sold more the 50 millions copies A most notable naysayer was ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl whose 1947 Kon Tiki raft expedition advanced the drift idea that colonization
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