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Trouble in Paradise: Revising Identity in Two Texts by Thor Heyerdahl

Jenna Coughlin
Scandinavian Studies, September 2016, 88 (3) 246-269; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.88.3.0246
Jenna Coughlin
University of California, Berkeley
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