Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of SkiingA&C Black, 10.11.2009 - 436 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
1 Skiing Necesse Est | 1 |
2 Ski Tracks in the Milky Way | 3 |
3 The Earliest Written Sources | 15 |
Kalevala | 23 |
5 The First Printed Sources | 33 |
6 Norway The Cradle of Skiing as a Sport | 45 |
7 The Influence of Rousseau | 53 |
8 The Ski in Foreign Literature | 61 |
21 Skiing Comes to Switzerland | 201 |
The cradle of the Ski Resort | 211 |
23 The English Skiing at Davos | 221 |
24 Mathias Zdarsky | 231 |
25 St Moritz | 241 |
26 Skiing in France | 249 |
27 Polar Exploration | 265 |
28 The Inventions that Founded Modern Skiing | 283 |
9 Evolution of Skiing as a Sport | 65 |
10 The Men of Telemark | 79 |
11 Development of Technique and Equipment | 95 |
12 The First Nordic Marathon | 105 |
13 The Conquest of the Mountain World | 117 |
14 Fridtjof Nansen and the first crossing of Greenland | 127 |
15 The Nordic Olympia | 141 |
16 The Waisted Telemark Ski | 149 |
17 The Rise of Ski Touring and the Misadventures of Roald Amundsen | 155 |
18 As Important as the Plays of Ibsen | 167 |
19 The Spread of Skiing on the Continent | 177 |
20 Norwegians bring Skiing to AustriaHungary and Montenegro | 187 |
29 The New World | 297 |
30 The Study of Snow Structure | 307 |
31 The First Winter Olympics at Chamonix | 319 |
32 Mass Winter Tourism | 331 |
33 The International Recognition of Downhill Skiing | 339 |
34 Skiing Mechanized and Politicized | 347 |
35 Military Skiing | 357 |
36 Skiing Since 1945 | 375 |
Notes | 391 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alpine skiing Alps Amundsen andor appeared army Austria Balck became binding Bjaaland boot Branger called century Chamonix Christiania climb Coubertin cross-country race crossing of Greenland crust Davos English event February Finland Finnish forest French Games German Greenland Hardangervidda heelstrap Holmenkollen Huitfeldt Huseby Ibid Iselin January jump Kandahar kind Kleinoscheg Lapps Lunn modern ski Morgenbladet mountain Mürzzuschlag Nansen natural newspaper Nonetheless Nordic Games Nordic skiing Nordmarka Norway Norwegian Norwegian ski Notes to Chapter original Oslo pair of skis passim pioneer polar exploration racers record Rottefella Russian Scandinavia Schneider skating ski club ski race ski school ski stick ski tour ski wax ski-jumping slalom sledge slope snow snowshoe speed Spengler St Moritz steep Stockholm Sweden Swedish Swiss Switzerland technique Telemark ski terrain toestrap took track Trondheim Trysil turn Urdahl valley wanted Winter Olympics winter sports wood words wrote Zdarsky