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

Huntford, Roland

 
9781847252364: Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1847252362 ISBN 13 : 9781847252364
Editeur : Hambledon Continuum, 2008

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Hambledon Continuum
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1847252362
ISBN 13 
9781847252364
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
456
Coordonnées du fabricant
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