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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.
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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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'This is a deeply scholarly work ... Fortunately scholarly in this instance is not synonymous with dull ... Huntford manages to to bind a wealth of material together with a strong narrative thread.'Simon Redfern, The Independent on Sunday
"The breadth of his scholarship, which includes an easy familiarity with Scandinavian texts, is extraordinary." Literary Review
"What elevates Huntford is his comprehensive approach ... accessible and enjoyable, even to the most armchair bound of 'schussers'." Paul Watkins, The Times
"Could the outcome of the Second World War have been decided by the humble ski? That's the bold but surprisingly convincing claim made by Roland Huntford in Two Planks and a Passion." Roger Cox, The Scotsman
Review in The Daily Telegraph.
"Huntford's book will be a perfect stocking present for piste fantasists like me", Max Hastings, Sunday Times
"This is a compelling acount, and definitive history, of an activity that has evolved over time into one of our most thriving leisure industries." Sunday Telegraph
"An engaging and insightful work" Sport Magazine
"The most in-depth study of skiing currently in the English language and it will no doubt remain the defining record for some time." The Guardian
Mention in The Daily Mail, 28 November 2008.
"The breadth of his scholarship, which includes an easy familiarity with Scandinavian texts, is extraordinary." Literary Review
"What elevates Huntford is his comprehensive approach ... accessible and enjoyable, even to the most armchair bound of 'schussers'." Paul Watkins, The Times
"Could the outcome of the Second World War have been decided by the humble ski? That's the bold but surprisingly convincing claim made by Roland Huntford in Two Planks and a Passion." Roger Cox, The Scotsman
Review in The Daily Telegraph.
"Huntford's book will be a perfect stocking present for piste fantasists like me", Max Hastings, Sunday Times
"This is a compelling acount, and definitive history, of an activity that has evolved over time into one of our most thriving leisure industries." Sunday Telegraph
"An engaging and insightful work" Sport Magazine
"The most in-depth study of skiing currently in the English language and it will no doubt remain the defining record for some time." The Guardian
Mention in The Daily Mail, 28 November 2008.
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