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David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’ Cover

David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’

By: Victor Melander  
Open Access
|Oct 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-612 | Journal eISSN: 2047-6930
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