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A Hero for the Atomic Age - Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (Hardcover, New edition)
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A Hero for the Atomic Age - Thor Heyerdahl and the "Kon-Tiki" Expedition (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Peter Lang Ltd., 00
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In English and many other languages the name 'Kon-Tiki' has become
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, for the first time, 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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