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Two Planks and a Passion : The Dramatic History of Skiing
by Huntford, RolandEdition:
1st
ISBN13:
9781441134011
ISBN10:
1441134018
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
11/10/2009
Publisher(s):
Continuum
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Summary
Roland Huntford's brilliant history begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth. Man is a travelling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival.
Author Biography
Roland Huntford is the world's foremost authority on the polar expeditions and their protagonists. The biographer of Shackleton and Nansen, his other books include Scott and Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth. He was the Scandinavian correspondent on The Observer for many years.
Table of Contents
| Preface, Acknowledgements | |
| Note, Maps | |
| Skiing Necesse Est | |
| Ski Tracks in the Milky Way | |
| The Earliest Written Sources | |
| The Finnish National Epic Kalevala | |
| The First Printed | |
| Norway - the Cradle of Skiing as a Sport | |
| The Influence of Rousseau | |
| The Ski in Foreign Literature | |
| Evolution of Skiing as a Sport | |
| The Men of Telemark | |
| Development of Technique and Equipment | |
| The First Nordic Marathon | |
| The Conquest of the Mountain World | |
| Fridtjof Nansen and the first crossing of Greenland | |
| The Nordic Olympia | |
| The Waisted Telemark Ski | |
| The Rise of Ski Touring and the misadventures of Roald Amundsen | |
| As Important as the Plays of Ibsen | |
| The Spread of Skiing on the Continent | |
| Norwegians Bring Skiing to Austria-Hungary and Montenegro | |
| Skiing Comes to Switzerland | |
| Davos: Cradle of the Ski Resort | |
| The English Skiing at Davos | |
| Mathias Zdarsky | |
| St. Moritz | |
| Skiing in France | |
| Polar Exloration | |
| The Inventions that Founded Modern Skiing | |
| The New World | |
| The Study of Snow Structure | |
| The First Winter Olympics at Chamonix | |
| Mass Winter Tourism | |
| The International Recognition of Downhill Skiing | |
| Skiing Mechanised and Politicised | |
| Military Skiing | |
| Skiing Since 1945 | |
| Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
