{"title":"Roland Huntford","description":"Roland Huntford is the former Scandinavian correspondent for the London Observer. He is the bestselling author of two critically acclaimed biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen as well as the novel Sea of Darkness. He lives in Cambridge, England.","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-place-on-earth-scott-and-amundsens-race-to-the-south-pole-revised-and-updated-paperback","title":"The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. Scott, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, became Britain's beloved failure, while Amundsen, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, was largely forgotten. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out. THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365885640927,"sku":"9780375754746","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/s-jDNpl0e69780375754746.webp?v=1789073572"},{"product_id":"race-for-the-south-pole-the-expedition-diaries-of-scott-and-amundsen-paperback","title":"Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time ever Roland Huntford presents each man's full account of the race to the South Pole in their own words.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice and the definitive account of the Race for the South Pole.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367053689055,"sku":"9781441126672","price":23.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/HTW5ik7wdV9781441126672.webp?v=1789102273"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/roland-huntford.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}