Norman Baker (explorer)
Norman Leonard Baker was a navigator on Thor Heyerdahl's Ra, Ra II and Tigris reed boat expeditions. He was the co-author of Thor Heyerdahl and the Reed Boat Ra, a 1974 children's book on the expeditions. He was a fellow and director of the Explorers Club, and served as an advisor to Fara Heim, an expedition searching for signs of Viking settlements in North America. Baker died when the Cessna 172 he was piloting crashed in Pittsford, Vermont on November 22, 2017.