* Review coverage in national and specialist press.
Roland Huntford is the author of two best-selling polar biographies, SHACKLETON (1985) and SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN (1979), filmed for TV as the acclaimed series THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH. He was the London OBSERVER's Scandinavian correspondent & speaks fluent Norwegian.
'[NANSEN] is a rare thing, a work of immense scholarship blazing with insight...' Beryl Bainbridge, LITERARY REVIEW '[Huntford's] NANSEN has been longawaited. It is a triumph ... a hugely satisfying biography' Paul Theroux, GUARDIAN 'It is a book which takes us outward through the life of another and from there inward into our own. What more can you ask of a biography?' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Roland Huntford has captured something of the restless romantic within. It is an accomplished biography at every level.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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