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Green was the earth on the seventh day
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- ISBN: 9780679440932
- ISBN: 9781568361826 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0679440933
- ISBN: 1568361823 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c1996.
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| Subject: | Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl, Thor -- Views on environmental degradation Explorers -- Norway -- Biography Environmental degradation |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Alert Bay Public Library | 910.92 HEY (Text) | 35125000049159 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | 910.92 HEY (Text) | 35146001547587 | Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Recounts the author's experiences on Fatu-Hiva in the 1930s, where the author and his wife tried to live like the natives, and where he developed his theories about transoceanic human contact and the need to protect the environment from human damage - Baker & Taylor
The great explorer and author ofKon-Tiki reminisces about his first voyage in the early 1930s to the tiny Pacific island of Fatu-Hiva and describes the lessons he learned about the natural world and human nature and their impact on his later life. 17,500 first printing. - Blackwell North Amer
A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise - a natural and unspoiled world that they sought and, to a degree, found in the South Pacific. It was the first of many journeys that would lead to expeditions and explorations, to a vocation, to the testing of theories against the currents of oceans and history, to books that would include Kon-Tiki, Aku-Aku, and Easter Island, and would bring him worldwide fame and renown.
This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is the key to his future life. We see the early emergence of certain of his basic ideas and beliefs: that ancient man, previously believed to he primitive and confined by the oceans, knew more and traveled farther than had been suspected; that the natural world was even then endangered and was well worth preserving; that individuals and peoples could live peacefully together, find common problems and uncommon joys.
This is a love story, an adventure story, a documentary based on journals the young Thor kept at the time, and a prophet's brief but unrestrained, unabashed sermon-polemic on why the seas, like the cities, should no longer be unthinkingly polluted in the pursuit of profits, and why the contempt for nature is as much a crime against the planet as a capital offense against humanity.
