Green Was The Earth On The Seventh Day
«A message which is all the more powerful for its simplicity»
The TIMES
Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day is a very special kind of autobiography. A docomentary account of the year spent by Thor Heyerdahl and his wife on the remote, unspoiled South Pasific island of Fatu . Les mer
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Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day is a very special kind of autobiography. A docomentary account of the year spent by Thor Heyerdahl and his wife on the remote, unspoiled South Pasific island of Fatu . Hiva in the late 1930s, it is also a deeply evocative, moving statement of ideas and belifs which would shape Heyerdahl`s own life of exploration and the environmental concerns of successive generations.
Heyerdahl`s memoir charts how the dreams of a lifetime knife, an iron pot and the determination to succeed, they survived encounters with islanders friendly and frightening, with giant centipedes and scant resources, and with the realisation that a dwelling madde of timber in the tropics has a tendency to keep on growing; but also that the stars in their eyes could no more be extinguished than the stars in the sky.
Heyerdahl`s memoir charts how the dreams of a lifetime knife, an iron pot and the determination to succeed, they survived encounters with islanders friendly and frightening, with giant centipedes and scant resources, and with the realisation that a dwelling madde of timber in the tropics has a tendency to keep on growing; but also that the stars in their eyes could no more be extinguished than the stars in the sky.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Abacus
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780349109879
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«A message which is all the more powerful for its simplicity»
The TIMES
«His book is very valuable, as both a cautionary tale and one of the most lucid accounts we have of the practical consequences of desert-island idealism»
PUNCH
«Lovingly written... Heyerdahl's unquenchable sense of wonder gives this book a rare charm»
Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday
«This marvellous book is a plea not for a return to the ways of primitive Man but for man now to preserve the environment»
The Times, Libby Purves
«Sincere and unaffected... he has some perceptive points to make about man's abusive relationship with his environment»
Literary Review