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Roland Huntford


Born
Cape Town, South Africa
Genre
Biography


Roland Huntford (né Horwitch) is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers.

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Average rating: 4.27 · 6,584 ratings · 546 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors
The Last Place on Earth: Sc...
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4.35 avg rating — 3,505 ratings — published 1979
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Shackleton
4.35 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 1975 — 29 editions
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Nansen
4.14 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
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Race for the South Pole: Th...
4.28 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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The Shackleton Voyages : A ...
4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Two Planks and a Passion: T...
3.59 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions
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The New Totalitarians
4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions
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The Amundsen Photographs
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4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN
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A Cultural History of Snow
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“Where imaginary mole hills turn into hallucinatory mountains”
― Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
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“Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.”
― Roland Huntford, Scott and Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth
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“Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.”
― Roland Huntford, Scott and Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth
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