FatuHiva Author:Thor Heyerdahl A twentieth-century Robinson Caruso, the youthful Thor Heyerdahl spent the year 1936 with his bride, Liv, on Fatu-Hiva in the primitive Marquesa Islands. They built a bamboo cabin, dressed in loin clothes, ate breadfruit, made fire by rubbing sticks together, and almost miraculously, survived to tell about it.