Thor Heyerdahl,

Kon-Tiki (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1950). When it comes to adventures on the sea, Melville has nothing on Heyerdahl .

Thor Heyerdahl,

Aku-Aku (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1958). A colorful narrative of the 1955-1956 expedition, no less enjoyable because of the author’s iconoclastic views, though slightly marred by his patronizing attitude toward the islanders .

Thor Heyerdahl and Edwin Ferdon, Jr., eds.,

Archaeology of Easter Island (Chicago, Rand McNally, 1961). Reports from Heyerdahl’s team, many of whom disagreed with their leader .

Thor Heyerdahl,

Easter Island (New York: Random House, 1989). Heyerdahl’s most recent defense of his hypothesis did little to convince skeptics, but his account of how the islanders moved the statues is interesting and the volume is beautifully illustrated .

Easter Island, Earth Island (London: Thames & Hudson, 1992). The most recent and best popular account of the pro-Polynesian, anti-Heyerdahl position. The book’s only flaw is that the authors insist on treating Easter Island’s ecological crisis as a metaphor for the earth’s, an approach that makes for admirable environmentalism but potentially dubious history .

Steven Roger Fischer, ed.,

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