![]() ![]() They had two sons.ĭuring the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Heyerdahl served with the Free Norwegian Forces from 1944, in the far north province of Finnmark. They remained a year studying the indigenous plants and animals, but Heyerdahl became more interested in cultural anthropology than zoology. In 1936, he married Liv Coucheron-Torp, and together they travelled to the island of Fatu Hiva, part of the Marquesan archipelago, in the Pacific. He was able to consult books and papers in the Kropelien Polynesian library, then the largest such collection in the world. He studied zoology and geography at the University of Oslo, but also became very interested in Polynesian culture and history. Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, Norway, on 6 October 1914, the son of a brewer. Heyerdahl wrote several international bestsellers about his adventures, and these occasionally refer to the diaries. ![]() An archive of his papers, now registered of world importance by Unesco, holds some diaries, though there is no evidence of these ever having been published in their original form. Today marks the centenary of the birth of Thor Heyerdahl, the great Norwegian adventurer who, by sailing primitive rafts and canoes, showed that ancient peoples could have made oceanic voyages, across the Pacific, and across the Atlantic. ![]()
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