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Zusatztext "In his early books, Huntford chronicled the race to the South Pole ("The Last Place on Earth") and wrote biographies of Ernest Shackleton and Fridtjof Nansen. "Two Planks" seems a natural progression for him ... Huntford deserves praise for bringing together a lot of rich material." New York Times Book Review. Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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. Vorwort Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This is brilliantly brought to life in this engaging book. Zusammenfassung Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This book presents a history that begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth, when man is a traveling animal, and on these icy slopes skiing began as a means of survival. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface,Acknowledgements Note, Maps 1. Skiing Necesse Est 2. Ski Tracks in the Milky Way 3. The Earliest Written Sources 4. The Finnish National Epic: Kalevala 5. The First Printed 6. Norway - the Cradle of Skiing as a Sport 7. The Influence of Rousseau 8. The Ski in Foreign Literature 9. Evolution of Skiing as a Sport 10. The Men of Telemark 11. Development of Technique and Equipment 12. The First Nordic Marathon 13. The Conquest of the Mountain World 14. Fridtjof Nansen and the First Crossing of Greenland 15. The Nordic Olympia 16. The Waisted Telemark Ski 17. The Rise of Ski Touring and the Misadventures of Roald Amundsen 18. As Important as the Plays of Ibsen 19. The Spread of Skiing on the Continent 20. Norwegians Bring Skiing to Austria-Hungary and Montenegro 21. Skiing Comes to Switzerland 22. Davos 23. The English Skiing at Davos 24. Mathias Zdarsky 25. St.Moritz 26. Skiing in France 27. Polar Exloration 28. The Inventions that Founded Modern Skiing 29. The New World 30. The Study of Snow Structure 31. The First Winter Olympics at Chamonix 32. Mass Winter Tourism 33. The International Recognition of Downhill Skiing 34. Skiing Mechanized and Politicized 35. Military Skiing 36. Skiing Since 1945 Bibliography ...
