Ragnar Kvam Jr.

In 1978 he set out to sail around the world. He has published a number of critically acclaimed documentary books, among them The Third Man (1987) about the destiny of Hjalmar Johansen, the companion of Scott and Amundsen, The Punishment (1999) both also published in German by Berlin Verlag; and  The Four Heroes (2000) which tell the stories of Nansen, Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton.

Ragnar Kvam Jr. is the first biographer to gain access to all the documents the adventurer and scientist Thor Heyerdahl left behind. In 2013 he completed the biography of Thor Heyerdahl with the third volume The Man and the Myths.