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The later life of Thor Heyerdahl
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Bog'liq Listening transcripts 230531 122425The later life of Thor Heyerdahl
OLIVIA:
All right, Victor, so after your part I’ll talk about Thor Heyerdahl’s adult life, continuing from
the theory he had about Polynesian migration: Up until that time of course, academics
had believed that humans first migrated to the islands in Polynesia from Asia, in the west.
VICTOR:
Yes,
they thought that travel from the east was impossible, because of the huge,
empty stretch of ocean that lies between the islands and the nearest inhabited land.
Q25
OLIVIA:
Yes, but Heyerdahl spent ages studying the cloud movements, ocean currents and wind
patterns to find if it was actually possible. And another argument was that there was no
tradition of large ship-building in the communities lying to the east of Polynesia. But Heyerdahl
knew they made lots of coastal voyages in locally built canoes.
VICTOR:
Yes, or sailing on rafts, as was shown by the long voyage that Heyerdahl did next. It was
an incredibly risky journey to undertake – sometimes I wonder if he did that trip for private
reasons, you know? To show others that he could have spectacular adventures. What do
you think, Olivia?
OLIVIA:
Well,
I think it was more a matter of simply trying out his idea, to see if migration from
the east was possible.
Q26
VICTOR:
Yes, that’s probably it. And the poor guy suffered a bit at that time because the war forced
him to stop his work for some years …
OLIVIA:
Yes. When he got started again and planned his epic voyage, do you think it was important
to him that he achieve it before anyone else did?
VICTOR:
Um, I haven’t read anywhere that that was his motivation.
The most important factor
seems to have been that he use only ancient techniques and local materials to build
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