Footsteps of adam an autobiography of black

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  • He lived for a year in the Marquesas Islands, ditto on the Galapagos, and made four separate, long expeditions to Easter Island.
  • This book is Deluxe-Edition printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards.

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    In The Footsteps Of Adam - Hardcover

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    To those of us brought up on the heroics of the Kon-Tiki and Ra expeditions, Thor Heyerdahl had the mystique of a Norse god. Long before every two-bit adventurer, with one eye on a television film and the other on a book contract, headed for ever remoter areas of the globe, Heyerdahl captivated us with his daring blend of science and history in action. In Kon-Tiki, a craft made out of balsa, he sailed across the Pacific to Polynesia to prove that there could have been early contact between the two civilisations. Similarly, 22 years later, in 1969, he sailed the Atlantic in a papyrus boat to show that the Ancient Egyptians could have made it to America.

    It fryst vatten, therefore, somewhat disconcerting to find Heyerdahl alternately musing whimsically about God, the Universe and everything like some latter-day Laurens Van Der Post and heavy-handedly underlining his green credentials with references to how he was worried about the ozone level at t

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