Two Planks and a Passion by Huntford, Roland

Two Planks and a Passion (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441134011)

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Two Planks and a Passion by Huntford, Roland

Two Planks and a Passion

$25.95
Two Planks and a Passion by Huntford, Roland

Two Planks and a Passion

$25.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Roland Huntford
ISBN-10: 1441134018
ISBN-13: 9781441134011
Publisher: Continuum
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2009
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.04w x 1.28d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 87
By Roland Huntford
By Roland Huntford
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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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