Obituary Thor Heyerdahl

The Scotsman | April 19, 2002 | Copyright

Thor Heyerdahl, explorer and author

Born: 6 October, 1914, in Larvik, Norway Died: 18 April, 2002, in Italy, aged 87

A POPULAR hero despite sneers from scholars, Thor Heyerdahl risked his life sailing the Pacific and Atlantic oceans on flimsy craft to show that prehistoric peoples could have done so too.

A modern-day Viking, Heyerdahl won worldwide acclaim with an epic 101-day voyage in 1947 from South America to Polynesia on the Kon- Tiki balsa raft, defying experts' predictions that he and his crew would drown.

In 1970, he crossed the Atlantic from Morocco to the West Indies on the reed ...

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