Title:Kon-Tiki and the postwar journey of discovery
Author(s):ANDERSSON, AxelDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract: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 ...
Title:L'impero di carta : Hugo Blotius, Hofbibliothekar nella Vienna di fine Cinquecento
Author(s):MOLINO, PaolaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis deals with the first organisation and uses of the Imperial library in Vienna between 1575 and 1604. At the core of this work there is the cultural and political experience of the first librarian, the Dutch scholar ...