An edition of A Hero for the Atomic Age
(2010)
A Hero for the Atomic Age
Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Axel Andersson
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The story of how Heyerdahl managed to construct a raft that he sailed from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic story that became imbued with a universal appeal.
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Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
2022, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
2022, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
2022, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
2017, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
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A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
2010, Peter Lang, Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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1906165319 9781906165314
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Man and the Myth.
Chapter 2 Making the Kon-Tiki.
Chapter 3 From Raft to Brand.
Chapter 4 The Seamless Craft of Writing Legend.
Chapter 5 To Review a Classic.
Chapter 6 The Kon-Tiki Film and the Return to Realism.
Chapter 7 A Lone Hero of Adventurous Science.
Chapter 8 White Primitives and the Art of Being Exotic to Oneself.
Chapter 9 The New Postwar Sea and the Pacific Frontier.
Conclusion
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