Name: A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (en Inglés)
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Author: Axel Andersson
ISBN: 9781788742757

portada A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Autor

Axel Andersson

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

252

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781788742757

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa

A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (en Inglés)

Axel Andersson (Autor) · Peter Lang International Academic Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (en Inglés)"

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 Heyerdahls theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the worlds great civilizations.