A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition

by Axel Andersson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788742753
• ISBN13: 9781788742757
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"