A Hero for the Atomic Age
Subtitle: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781906165314
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: Chapter 1 The Man and the Myth.; label: Chapter 2 Making the Kon-Tiki.; label: Chapter 3 From Raft to Brand.; label: Chapter 4 The Seamless Craft of Writing Legend.; label: Chapter 5 To Review a Classic.; label: Chapter 6 The Kon-Tiki Film and the Return to Realism.; label: Chapter 7 A Lone Hero of Adventurous Science.; label: Chapter 8 White Primitives and the Art of Being Exotic to Oneself.; label: Chapter 9 The New Postwar Sea and the Pacific Frontier.; title: Conclusion