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Titolo: Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)

Salve a tutti,
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
L'archeologo ed etnologo norvegese T. Heyerdahl (1914-2002) e'
deceduto ieri, dopo una lunga malattia, a Colla Micheri in Liguria,
dove risiedeva dal 1958.
In italiano erano apparsi i seguenti suoi volumi:
* Kon-Tiki : 4000 miglia su una zattera attraverso il Pacifico
[Milano: A. Martello, 1950 / Ed. rivista nella traduzione: Milano: A.
Mondadori, 1970 / Firenze: Martello-Giunti, 1975 / Ed. rivista: Roma :
Biblioteca del Vascello, 1995 / Milano : Biblioteca universale
Rizzoli, 1999]
* Aku-aku : il segreto dell'isola di Pasqua [Milano: A. Martello, 1958
/ ed. rivista nella traduzione: Firenze: Martello-Giunti, 1976]
* Rotte per la Polinesia [Milano: A. Martello, 1969]
* Ra [Milano: A. Martello, 1971]
* Fatu-Hiva : ritorno alla natura [Milano: A. Mondadori, 1977 /
Milano: Club degli editori, 1978]
* Il mistero delle Maldive  [Milano: A. Mondadori, 1988 / Milano: Club
degli editori, 1989]
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In coda, l'articolo della BBC che annuncia la morte di Heyerdahl.
Saluti zetetici,
Roberto
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Thor Heyerdahl Dies
BCC Thursday, 18 April, 2002, 18:40 GMT 19:40 UK 
The renowned Norwegian explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl has
died of cancer at the age of 87. 
He passed away in his family home at Colla Micheri, northern Italy,
after a long illness. 
Heyerdahl had undergone surgery last year, but it failed to halt his
disease. He was admitted to hospital in March when the cancer spread
to his brain. 
Heyerdahl will be forever remembered as the Kon-Tiki man. In 1947 he
skippered the tiny balsawood raft on a 6,000 kilometre journey from
Peru to Polynesia. 
It proved, he said, that ancient cultures could have sailed to, and
populated, the South Pacific. 
Thor Heyerdahl was born in Southern Norway in 1914. After studying
zoology and geography at university he married and, in 1936, travelled
with his new wife to the Marquesan archipelago in Pacific. 
He spent a year in the Marquesas, living off the land and studying the
local flora and fauna of this remote island group, the population of
which included a man whose father was a cannibal. 
However, he soon became more interested in how Polynesia had been
originally populated. He realised that the Pacific currents ran from
east to west and that many local plants were identical to those of
South America. 
During the World War II, he returned home to fight for the Free
Norwegian Forces in his occupied homeland: highly dangerous work which
saw him decorated for bravery. 
The Kon-Tiki expedition caught the imagination of a world enduring
post-war austerity. The film of
the expedition won Thor Heyerdahl an Oscar for best documentary, the
book sold 60 million copies worldwide. 
He followed his epic journey with archaeological expeditions in the
Pacific aimed at finding artefacts left by ancient South
Americans. 
In 1953 he travelled to the Galapagos Islands, 100 miles west of
Ecuador. Here he found large quantities of ceramic pottery which could
be traced to Indian cultures of Ecuador and Peru. 
International crewst 
In 1955 and 1956, Thor Heyerdahl conducted the first co-ordinated
excavations of Easter Island, the abandoned island whose many carved
heads stand sentinel on the Pacific. Again, he found indications of
early visitors  from South America. 
In 1970 he crossed the Atlantic in a papyrus craft, Ra II after the
original Ra had disintegrated shortly after it set
out. The journey, which ended in triumph in the West Indies turned the
idea that Columbus was the first transatlantic navigator on its head. 
Eight years he skippered another ship, the Tigris, on a journey  from
the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, down the Persian Gulf to Oman,
Pakistan and, then, across the Indian Ocean to Djibouti on the Horn of
Africa. 
The five month journey was meant to show how the ancient Sumerians
could have travelled widely. 
When, in Djibouti, the Tigris was prevented from entering the Red Sea
by local conflicts, Heyerdahl burned it in a poignant protest against
war. A committed internationalist, he always travelled with a
multinational crew and always flew the flag of the United Nations. 
Thor Heyerdahl's expeditions fostered a close understanding of the
global environment and he voiced his concern at the increasing problem
of pollution which he had encountered even in the middle of the
world's oceans . 
"We seem to believe the ocean is endless," he said, "but we use it
like a sewer." 
Latterly, he had spent many years in South America, supervising the
excavation of the largest complex of pyramids in South America at
Tacume in Peru. 
Critics claim that Thor Heyerdahl's views were wrong and that his
archaeological and research methods left much to be desired. He
countered that his many expeditions, backed up by the artefacts which
he had found scattered throughout Polynesia, proved his case. 
He said the world's oceans should be treated as one vast highway. That
was how, he claimed, that ancient civilisations saw them. Modern
people, he said, should be more ready to think in ancient terms. 
Thor Heyerdahl's controversial beliefs on human migration may have cut
across the conventional wisdom of his time, but his pioneering spirit
and continuing quest for understanding endeared him to millions.
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 dove risiedeva dal 1958.
Un saluto a Chi ha saputo intraprendere nuove strade.
Montealto

 Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
Un saluto per l'ultimo viaggio al "uomo del Kon-Tiki".
Ci vorrebbero più tizi come lui e meno "scettici" ;-)
Bye Krmel
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 Ci vorrebbero più tizi come lui e meno "scettici" ;-)
Avrei detto meno fessi.
Saluti.
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