Quote of the day
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
Roland Huntford

Born: 1927 (age 99)
Bio: Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent.
Known for:
- Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth (1979)
- The New Totalitarians (1971)
- Shackleton (1985)
- Nansen: The Explorer as Hero (1997)






