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Two planks and a passion : the dramatic history of skiing / Roland Huntford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Continuum, 2009Description: xiv, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1441134018
  • 9781441134011
Other title:
  • 2 planks and a passion
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.93209 22
LOC classification:
  • GV854.1 .H86 2009
Contents:
Skiing necesse est -- Ski tracks in the Milky Way -- The earliest written sources -- Old Norse sagas and the Finnish national epic, Kalevala -- The first printed sources -- 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 : the cradle of the ski resort -- The English skiing at Davos -- Matthias Zdarsky -- St Moritz -- Skiing in France -- Polar exploration -- 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 mechanized and politicized -- Military skiing -- Skiing since 1945.
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Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-428) and index.

Skiing necesse est -- Ski tracks in the Milky Way -- The earliest written sources -- Old Norse sagas and the Finnish national epic, Kalevala -- The first printed sources -- 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 : the cradle of the ski resort -- The English skiing at Davos -- Matthias Zdarsky -- St Moritz -- Skiing in France -- Polar exploration -- 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 mechanized and politicized -- Military skiing -- Skiing since 1945.

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