Roland Huntford

Gebundenes Buch

Two Planks and a Passion

The Dramatic History of Skiing

Beschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 166mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 828g
• ISBN-13: 9781847252364
• ISBN-10: 1847252362
• Artikelnr.: 23573372

Rezensionen

'Our choice - pick of the paperbacks ... Huntford tells the ski story straightforwardly and simply' - Sunday Times