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Two Planks and a Passion

Two Planks and a Passion - Paperback

by Roland Huntford
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Availability:In StockContributor:Roland HuntfordPublish date:2009-10-11Pages:456
Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441134011ISBN-10:1441134018UPC:9781441134011Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Winter Sports, HistoryBook Topic:SkiingSize:9.22 x 6.04 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SCX9C50SZD

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.

That it has developed into the leisure and sporting pursuit of choice by so much of the globe bears testament to its elemental appeal. In polar exploration, it has changed the course of history. Elsewhere, in war and peace, it has done so too. The origins of skiing are bound up in with the emergence of modern man and the world we live in today.
Language:EnglishPublisher:ContinuumISBN-13:9781441134011ISBN-10:1441134018UPC:9781441134011Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Winter Sports, HistoryBook Topic:SkiingSize:9.22 x 6.04 x 1.28 inchesWeight:1.6821Product ID:SCX9C50SZD
Roland Huntford is the world's foremost authority on the polar expeditions and their protagonists. He is the author of the award-winning Two Planks and a Passion: the Dramatic History of Skiing and Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth and he is the biographer of Shackleton and Nansen. He was the Scandinavian correspondent on The Observer for many years.
Publisher: Continuum

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