[Free pdf] Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing
▲ Roland Huntford ▲
| #1453434 in Books | 2009-11-10 | 2009-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 233.93 x23.39 x6.14l,1.68 | File Name: 1441134018 | 456 pages
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Essential history|By Seth Masia|If you're serious about the early history of skiing, Huntford's book is essential reading. There are now a number of very good academic English-language studies of the history and culture of skiing in the modern era (beginning with the eighteenth century), but Huntford is the best scholarly work on the sport's prehistory -- that is, on over-snow||
'This is a deeply scholarly work ... Fortunately scholarly in this instance is not synonymous with dull ... Huntford manages to to bind a wealth of material together with a strong narrative thread.'
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 ...
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You easily download any file type for your gadget.Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing | Roland Huntford.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
