Quote of the day
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Roland Huntford

Born: September 4, 1927
Died: January 23, 2026 (aged 98)
Bio: Roland Huntford was an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lived 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)






