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Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing - Hardcover

Huntford, Roland

 
9781847252364: Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1847252362 ISBN 13: 9781847252364
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
BLOOMSBURY 3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847252362
ISBN 13 
9781847252364
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
436
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