Download or read book Green Was the Earth on the Seventh Day Pod B written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Little, Brown Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1930s, Thor Heyerdahl left his home in Norway and set off with his new wife for paradise. Fulfilling a long-held ambition to return to nature, the couple sought, and to a degree found, a natural and unspoiled world on the remote island of Fatu-Hiva in the South Pacific. Based on his original journals, Heyerdahl's documentary account charts how the dreams of a lifetime were transformed into a magical year of hope, excitement and unexpected danger. A timeless story of love and adventure, GREEN WAS THE EARTH... is also an impassioned plea for the preservation of the cities and the seas against the tide of pollution and the pursuit of profit, ideas and beliefs, a cry which would shape one man's life and the environmental concerns of successive generations. Powerful and poignant, GREEN WAS THE EARTH ON THE SEVENTH DAY is a very special kind of autobiography.
Download or read book Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise - a natural and unspoiled world that they sought and, to a degree, found 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, Aku-Aku, and Easter Island, and would bring him worldwide fame and renown." "This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is the key to his future life. We see the early emergence of certain of his basic ideas and beliefs: that ancient man, previously believed to he primitive and confined by the oceans, knew more and traveled farther than had been suspected; that the natural world was even then endangered and was well worth preserving; that individuals and peoples could live peacefully together, find common problems and uncommon joys." "This is a love story, an adventure story, a documentary based on journals the young Thor kept at the time, and a prophet's brief but unrestrained, unabashed sermon-polemic on why the seas, like the cities, should no longer be unthinkingly polluted in the pursuit of profits, and why the contempt for nature is as much a crime against the planet as a capital offense against humanity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Green Was Earth Seventh Day B Bcl written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 1998-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gardeners Dictionary containing the methods of cultivating the kitchen fruit and flower garden as also the physick garden wilderness conservatory and vineyard interspersed with the history of the plants the name of the species in Latin and English together with accounts of the nature and use of barometers thermometers and hygrometers and of the origin of meteors etc written by Philip Miller and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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