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100 1 _aHuntford, Roland,
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245 1 0 _aTwo planks and a passion :
_bthe dramatic history of skiing /
_cRoland Huntford.
246 3 _a2 planks and a passion
264 1 _aLondon :
_bContinuum,
_c2009.
300 _axiv, 436 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: 2008.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 401-428) and index.
505 0 _aSkiing 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.
588 _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650 0 _aSkis and skiing
_xHistory
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650 0 _aSkis and skiing
_xSocial aspects
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