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Overview

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.

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Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

BBC History Magazine
Roland Huntford’s book is an amazingly detailed history of skiing’s Scandinavian origins.
The Guardian
The most in-depth study of skiing currently in the English language and it will no doubt remain the defining record for some time.
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The Independent on Sunday
this is a deeply scholarly work ... Fortunately scholarly in this instance is not synonymous with dull ... Huntford manages to bind a wealth of material together with a strong narrative thread.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781847252364
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 11/1/2008
  • Pages: 456
  • Sales rank: 559,450
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author


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.

Table of Contents

1 Skiing Necesse Est 1

2 Ski Tracks in the Milky Way 3

3 The Earliest Written Sources 15

4 Old Norse Sagas and the Finnish National Epic: 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

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 Siding on the Continent 177

20 Norwegians bring Skiing to Austria-Hungary and Montenegro 187

21 Skiing Comes to Switzerland 201

22 Davos: The cradle of the Ski Resort 211

23 The English Skiing at Davos 221

24 Matthias Zdarsky 231

25 St. Moritz 241

26 Skiing in France 249

27 Polar Exploration 265

28 The Inventions that Founded Modern Skiing 283

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 Siding 339

34 Skiing Mechanized and Politicized 347

35 Military Skiing 357

36 Skiing Since 1945 375

Notes 391

Bibliography 401

Index 429

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  • Posted January 12, 2009

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    Good information, poor execution

    "Two Planks and a Passion" contains a wealth of information for skiing enthusiasts, but the writing and editing left much to be desired. I am a fan of Mr. Huntford's polar exploration books and expected the same care to be given to the sport for which we share a passion - what I found was a book that jumped from one era to another and one character to another with little cohesion. Add to the mix a number of mechanical errors (punctuation , grammar) that are frequent enough to be distracting. Mr. Huntford tends to overstate the contributions of some (mostly Norwegian) players and dismiss others (mostly non-Norwegian) too easily. If you love skiing, it is worth the read - if you do not, this may be a heavy plod.

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