To the older generation, Erling Lorentzen is the proud ship-owner’s son from the weekly newspapers of the 1950’s – a war hero, a close friend of resistance hero Gunnar Sønsteby, the man who married the princess and took her to a tropical paradise. To the younger generation he is the rich man from the tabloid press – the business magnate who came into conflict with indigenous peoples and environmental activists in Brazil.
Here, the whole story of Erling Lorentzen is told for the first time.
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