Rjukan: A UNESCO World Heritage Site

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The town of Rjukan in the Telemark region of Norway has a remarkable history. The birth of modern Norwegian tourism, the development of hydroelectric power and artificial fertiliser to feed a growing world population, facilitation of modern-day workers’ rights, nuclear development and the bravery and tenacity of wartime saboteurs. This story is considered by UNESCO to represent outstanding universal value and therefore needs to be preserved. Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2015.

 

This guidebook tells the amazing story of Rjukan alongside the filming of the new mini-series The Heavy Water War.

 

It also includes:

 

·       A foreword by The Heavy Water War Director Per-Olav Sørensen.

·       Interactive maps and location directions.

·       Touring and attraction information with direct links to websites.

·       Exclusive images from the mini-series.

·       Extensive full screen slide-shows and panorama images.

·       Audio guided waking tours.

·       Background information on the cast and crew.

·       Then and Now interactive images.

·       Historical notes on the Tinn Kommune.

 

Join best-selling author Ian Brodie on a fascinating tour of discovery. 

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About the author

Ian Brodie MNZM is an award-winning author and photographer.

His love of his native New Zealand, film, travel, photography and vintage combat aircraft have combined to produce some remarkable books and images including the bestselling Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook.

He is the director of Ian Brodie Consulting, which concentrates on film tourism, writing and photography. Ian has just completed The Hobbit Location Guidebook and is currently working on other film and travel books.

Brodie was Media Manager for Hobbiton Movie Set Tours, and was the founding director of the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, in Wanaka. 

Ian travels the world with his passion, taking images on film sets, and of landscapes. This was the first book in his new On Location Guides series.

For more information visit www.ianbrodie.net

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