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A Hero for the Atomic Age
- Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
Engelsk Paperback
A Hero for the Atomic Age
- Thor Heyerdahl and the «Kon-Tiki» Expedition
Engelsk Paperback

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In English and many other languages the name «Kon-Tiki» is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 101-day raft journey, Heyerdahl emerged as the protagonist in a legend that helped to create a new postwar West. A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses the problematic nature of Heyerdahl’s theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world’s great civilizations.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
262
ISBN-13:
9781788742757
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1788742753
Udg. Dato:
29 dec 2017
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Oplagsdato:
29 dec 2017
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge