The Maldive Mystery reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in that the archaeologist's later work involves a more speculative investigation to distill facts from myth and mystery, and less of a focus on the daring deeds of the "adventure archaeologist."4/5. Heyerdahl with Maldive icon. Since Heyerdahl published his 'Maldive Mystery', many books, articles and guides about the Maldives mention sun-worship, pyramids, waves of immigrants, attacks by lion-people and other such fallacies in their historical outline of the Maldive archipelago. These distortions of truth are common in all of Heyerdahl’s books, which are less about serious research than about displaying . The Maldive Mystery is more a tour through Thor Heyerdahl's various expeditions to the Maldives in the early s at a time when the country was just re-emerging back into the international community/5(1).
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, , Larvik, Norway - Ap, Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed 4, miles (8, km) by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The Maldive Mystery|Thor Heyerdahl, Battling The Clouds: Or, For A Comrade's Honor|Frank Cobb, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark|W Shakespeare, The public school German grammar: With exercises for translation, composition, and conversation, a list of strong and irregular verbs and two complete vocabularies|A. L Meissner. Heyerdahl says it well near the book's end: ""The Maldive Islandsnow began to appear like a barrier reef from which octopus tentacles spread to remote corners of the Old World. Into the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as far as Rome. Into the Persian Gulf and beyond as far as Finland and the Arctic coast of Norway.
Heyerdahl, an authority on primitive sea travel (Kon-Tiki, The Ra Expeditions, unravels a mystery that reaches into the vanished civilizations of Sumer and the Indus Valley. This is a book full of surprises. First, that Heyerdahl is alive and well and continues his wander-archaeologico-lust. Second, the Maldives. The Maldives? An archipelago in the Indian Ocean southwest of India; total population , spread over a thousand and more small coral islands straddling the equator. Los Angeles, CA , USA Hornby St #, Vancouver. BC V6Z 2E6, Canada. is a star service. My writer’s enthusiasm is contagious. In the classroom or online. His approach boosts your The Maldive Mystery|Thor Heyerdahl confidence and makes difficult stuff look easy. - Chadi, General BA, Class of $
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