Norman Baker (explorer)

Norman L. Baker (born 1929) was navigator on Thor Heyerdahl's Ra, Ra II and Tigris reed boat expeditions. He was the co-author (with Barbara Murphy) of Thor Heyerdahl and the Reed Boat Ra, a 1974 children's book on the expeditions. He is a fellow and ex-director of the Explorers Club, and serves as an advisor to Fara Heim, an expedition searching for signs of Viking settlements in North America.