Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of SkiingBloomsbury Publishing, 31.01.2013 - 456 Seiten Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Roland Huntford's 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
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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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Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing Roland Huntford Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing Roland Huntford Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
Two Planks and a Passion: The Dramatic History of Skiing Roland Huntford Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2008 |
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