Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature
Thor Heyerdahl
Hardcover
(Doubleday, March 15, 1975)
"Thor Heyerdahl wrote these words when he was twenty-three years old, living in the Marquesas Islands. At the time, he intended never to return to civilization. FATU-HIVA is the record of an early-life experiment, the exciting, high-spirited adventure of a great scientist who followed in the footsteps of Gauguin in search of a Garden of Eden -- man in his primitive naturalness."