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Fatu-Hiva : back to nature / Thor Heyerdahl.

Heyerdahl, Thor. (Author).

Summary:

The story of Heyerdahl and his wife's first Pacific adventure in 1936. Fatu-Hiva lay outside the shipping lanes; there were no white inhabitants and no contact with the outside world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 038508921X
  • ISBN: 9780385089210
  • Physical Description: viii, 276 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st American edition
  • Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Farewell to civilization -- Back to nature -- White men, dark shadows -- Exodus -- Taboo -- Ocean escape -- On Hivaoa -- Island of ill omen -- In the cannibal valley -- Cave dwellers.
Subject:
Fatu Hiva (French Polynesia) > Description and travel.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Fatu-Hiva.

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