Bokförlaget Forum (Wine and Other Beverages)" and Einar Wallquist’s medical book "Våra sjukdomar (Our Diseases)." In 1947, Norwegian ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl made and sailed a raft of balsa wood, called Kon-Tiki, from Peru to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the trip was to prove that the Polynesian inhabitants originated from America rather than Asia. In the academic world, most people thought Heyerdal a fanatic and questionable scientist. In 1948, Norsk Gyldendal published Heyerdahl’s story, which then was sent to Bonniers for consideration, Helms managed to persuade Kaj Bonnier to have it transferred to Forum. "Expedition Kon-Tiki (The Kon-Tiki Expedition)" was a
Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School national upper secondary courses of study or programmes, only agriculture is instead taught at another upper secondary school, "Melsom videregående skole" in Stokke. The school building covers an area square and has of instructional space, including 320 classrooms, of workshops, a six-hall arena space seating 4,000, three auditoria seating 45–180 people, and a professional kitchen. The library is named Fatu Hiva after the Polynesian island on which Thor Heyerdahl spent his honeymoon in the 1930s. 11% of Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School students speak a language other than Norwegian at home. The school is a focus school for the "Nasjonalt