Two Planks and a Passion by Huntford, Roland -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Preface 1 Skiing Necesse Est 2 Ski Tracks in the Milky Way 3 The Earliest Written Sources 4 Old Norse Sagas and the Finnish National Epic: Kalevala 5 The First Printed Sources 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 155 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: The cradle of the Ski Resort 23 The English Skiing at Davos 24 Mathias Zdarsky 25 St Moritz 26 Skiing in France 27 Polar Exploration 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 Maps Acknowledgements Note Bibliography Footnotes Notes Illustrations eCopyright

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