Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun

Release: December 20, 2022

Press Contact: Alexandra Fanning | atelier@alexandrafanning.com

Atelier Éditions is pleased to announce Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun, in collaboration with the  Kon-Tiki Museum, releasing December 20, 2022. 

Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author, and explorer Thor Heyerdahl  (1914–2002) spent decades substantiating unorthodox migration theories, with equally unconventional research methodologies: namely, practicable experiments that employed the construction of ancient vessels, driven across open oceans and waterways to retrace the movement and settlements of our ancestors. 

With 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl’s extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa-wood raft, Kon-Tiki, from coastal South America to Polynesia across the Pacific Ocean, an enviable opportunity arises to re-explore Heyerdahl’s innovative yet frequently contested theories and expeditions.  Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo’s Kon-Tiki Museum’s extensive Heyerdahl archive, Thor Heyerdahl:  Voyages of the Sun assembles as many as ninety pieces of little-known and previously unpublished correspondence, expedition logbooks, journals, and photographs. 

Offering readers new and unexamined narratives from an explorer famed for his radical ideas and vehement rejection of abstracted academic theory, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun reviews the enduring relevance of the explorer’s research and assesses it within larger narratives of modern archaeological, anthropological, marine science and migration research, international conservation initiatives, evolving globalization, and essential human-nature symbiosis.  

In celebration of the release, there will be a launch event and film screening at the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway on November 19, 2022, from 2PM - 6PM with presentations from professor Ingjerd Hoëm and author Kingston Trinder. RSVP: kon-tiki@kon-tiki.no. 

PUBLICATION INFORMATION: 

TEXTS by Kingston Trinder 

ESSAYS by Atholl Anderson, Sonia Haoa  

Cardinali, and Sylvia Earle 

EDITED by Lucy Kingett 

PUBLISHED by Atelier Éditions 

FIRST EDITION 

Edition of 3000 

ISBN 9781954957992 

Hardcover 

288 pages including 

85 color images, 230 B&W images 

9.25 x 11 inches 

Retail: $50.00 (US)

About Atelier Éditions

Atelier Éditions is an independent publishing house and creative consultancy established in Los Angeles in 2015. Authoring archival monographs, contemporary art books, and exploratory printed matter, the atelier regularly curates exhibitions, envisages cultural programming, initiates seminars, workshops, and enacts memorable collaborations.