Bengt Danielsson

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Bengt Danielsson


Born
in Sweden
July 06, 1921

Died
July 04, 1997

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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson was an anthropologist and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. Danielsson was born in Sweden in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology and was director of Sweden's National Museum of Ethnology for four years (1967–1971).

After the Kon-Tiki expedition, Danielsson married in Lima a French woman, Marie-Thérèse, and they decided to settle in Raroia, the atoll on which the raft had made landfall. They stayed there from 1949 to 1952, and in 1953 they moved to Tahiti. His doctoral thesis on the Tuamotus island chain, submitted to Uppsala University in 1955, was published the following year as Work and Life on Raroia. He subsequently wrote many books and scripted many
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Average rating: 4.13 · 175 ratings · 23 reviews · 62 distinct worksSimilar authors
Raroia: Happy Island Of The...

4.51 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1951 — 24 editions
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From Raft to Raft

4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1959 — 14 editions
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Gauguin in the South Seas

4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions
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Bumerangas

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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions
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Villervalle i Söderhavet

4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings4 editions
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Kapten Villervalle

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions
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Love in the South Seas

3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1954 — 20 editions
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Forgotten Islands of the So...

3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1957 — 6 editions
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Moruroa, mon amour

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions
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Bengt Danielsson i söderhavet

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