Archaeologist Øystein Kock Johansen claimed that it wasn’t new or necessarily original, for example, for Heyerdahl to draw ties between the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Meanwhile a chorus of critics got louder, questioning Heyerdahl’s research, his methods and theories, also in Norway. Heyerdahl faced financial difficulties and no longer had the funds to plan new expeditions. He didn’t get the publicity he’d expected for his aborted expedition and his political protest, and then his book on Tigris sold poorly. And in addition to losing contact with his daughters, especially Anette, his Tigris expedition literally went up in flames when Heyerdahl opted to set fire to the raft to protest the war at the time in East Africa. As his popularity grew, his relations to academic colleagues and those closest to him were strained at best. Now Kvam and publisher Gyldendal have launched the third volume that zeroes in on the myths around Heyerdahl and his life from the late 1970s until his death in 2002. Kvam’s second volume in the biographical trilogy, Mannen og verden (The man and the world), traces Heyerdahl’s international fame from the Kon-Tiki and Ra expeditions, his second marriage to Yvonne Dedekam-Simonsen, the births of their three daughters Anette, Marian and Bettina, his troubled relationship with his sons and the growing criticism of his theories by other researchers. It chronicled Heyerdahl’s childhood, his first marriage to fellow anthropologist Liv Coucheron Torp, the birth of their two sons Thor Jr and Bamse, and the war years leading up to the Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947. Kvam’s trilogy began with his first biography of Heyerdahl’s early years, Mannen og havet (The man and the sea), which came out in 2005. The women in his life, like many of his colleagues, were a critical part of his success even though Heyerdahl didn’t always give them the credit they deserved.
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Rather, Kvam felt it was important because it showed how his manner of conducting his private life carried into his professional life as well. Kvam has said that he didn’t dwell on Heyerdahl’s turbulent family life to sensationalize his private affairs. Norwegian author and biographer Ragnar Kvam Jr details Heyerdahl’s final years in his new book Thor Heyerdahl – Mannen og mytene (The man and the myths). That relationship didn’t last either, and he married for a fourth time at the age of 82. Thirty years after his triumphant Kon-Tiki expedition, Heyerdahl lost contact with his daughter after he’d left his second wife to move in with his physiotherapist. The final volume in a trilogy on the life of Thor Heyerdahl was launched last week. In Heyerdahl’s case, according to the new book on his final years, his family broke up, he faced financial problems and constant conflicts with other researchers.
The third volume in a biographical trilogy on the life of Norway’s legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl shows that even heroes run into hard times.
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