Axel Andersson Author

Axel Andersson is a Swedish historian and writer who has been fascinated by Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki since childhood. Afterattending school in Norwayand graduating from theUniversity of Edinburgh hecompleted his doctoral studiesat the European UniversityInstitute, Florence, where heinvestigated the origins ofthe Kon-Tiki expedition andits abiding importance forthe popular imagination.Andersson is also the authorof Den koloniala simskolan (2016).