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The Story of Modern Skiing
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: John Fry
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: UPNE

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Fry writes authoritatively of alpine skiing in North America and Europe, of Nordic skiing and of newer variations in the sport: freestyle skiing, snowboarding a
The Story of Modern Skiing
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: John Fry
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-14 - Publisher: University Press of New England

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This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years
White Planet
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Leslie Anthony
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-27 - Publisher: Greystone Books

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Writer and adventurer Leslie Anthony has spent his life on two planks, racing down hills, searching for the next perfect ride. His real baptism, however, began
Two Planks and a Passion
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Roland Huntford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-31 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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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
Skiing Into Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Andrew Denning
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-26 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Examines the relationship between skiers and the Alpine environment since the late nineteenth century. It argues that skiing and winter tourism modernized the