Post #607585 by JONPAUL on Wed, Sep 21, 2011 9:09 AM

Indeed, christiki295, 70 years ago, Mr. Heyerdahl first published his theory about the connections between Polynesia and South America (International Science, New York: 1941).
11 years later his research on this theory was published in *American Indians in the Pacific *(Stockholm: 1952), and of course, he would go on to conduct some of the most well-known modern archaeological quests of our time, including the Kon-Tiki, Galapagos, Easter Island and RA expeditions.

His life's work makes for a very interesting and engaging read and any of the following are highly recommended:

Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft (Rand McNally, 1947)
American Indians in the Pacific (George Allen & Unwin, 1952)
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Rand McNally, 1958)
Reports of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific (Gyldendal, 1961)
Sea Routes to Polynesia (Rand McNally, 1968)
The Ra Expeditions (Doubleday, 1971)
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature (Doubleday, 1974)
The Art of Easter Island (Doubleday, 1975)
Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation and Seaborne Civilizations (Doubleday, 1979)
The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings (Doubleday, 1981)
The Maldive Mystery (Adler & Adler, 1986)
Easter Island: The Mystery Solved (Random House, 1989)
Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City (Thames & Hudson, 1995)
In the Footsteps of Adam: A Memoir (Little, Brown & Co., 2000)