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List Price: $27.50 | | Publisher: Random House
Salesrank: 1739036
Released: March 12, 1996 |
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| Media: Hardcover |
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Editorial Review:
The bestselling author of Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku set out for the far Pacific and a place where he could throw his watch away and meet nature in its purest form. It was the start of many journeys to prove that ancient man had traveled far and wide, and was far more daring, sophisticated, and wise than had been thought. 24 photos.
Description of Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day:
A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise--a natural and unspoiled world that they find, to a degree, 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 and The Ra Expeditions. This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is part love story, part adventure story, part documentary, part sermon, all good read.
Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day Reviews:
Generally a Good Read 
2002-09-21 - This is one of those good kind of books that goes great with a rainy day and a cup of tea as you sit in your very normal surroundings imagining a place that is unimaginable.
Beware, though, of the large portions of uninteresting zoological mumbojumbo, and even worse, the offensive and continuous ranting of the Darwin-religion rhetoric.
Dig past the rubbish, and you'll find something worthwhile.
Fatu Hiva born again... 
2002-05-16 - This is great book about Heyerdahl's adventures and philosophies before and which inspired Kon-Tiki. Unfortunately, for me, it is an exact, word-for-word copy of Fatu Hiva - except for the title.
For a moment I too, stood on Fatu-Hiva, with Liv & Thor.
1997-07-02 - Twenty years ago I read Heyerdahl's first book about his year-long stay on Fatu-Hiva. Now out of print, but renewed in this book, is the vivid recollection of his time when the rest of the world stood still and he and his new bride explored a strange new culture and began the process of discovery not only for themselves but for all of us
Kon-Tiki's author eloquently describes his earliest years. 
1996-09-16 - Before Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl and his young bride Liv
departed Norway for Polynesia, to escape European civilization
and live in complete harmony with nature. This beautiful and
impassioned memoir describes their time and lays the
philosophical and ethical groundwork for Heyerdahl's
remarkable career as an explorer/scientist and one of the
planet's premier environmentalists. Part memoir, part
environmental manifesto, this belongs on the bookshelf of
anyone who's dreamed of getting back to nature, or who has
any sort of environmental passion. An important book by one
of the most remarkable men of the century.
