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The culture and sport of skiing from antiquity to World War II / E. John B. Allen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 384 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
  • computer
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  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613760604
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GV854 .C858 2007
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Contents:
Skis for a purpose -- The Norwegian thrust -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Creating the skisport -- The English play -- The French worry -- The Germans and Austrians organize -- The ladies ski -- The great war -- Uneasy peace -- Les Annees Folles -- The winter Olympic games of Chamonix, St. Moritz, Lake Placid -- Europeans abroad in the East -- Europeans abroad in the Americas -- Skiing under siege -- The Schneider phenomenon -- The Russo-Finnish War.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Archeology and myth -- Skis for a purpose -- The Norwegian thrust -- Fridtjof Nansen -- Creating the skisport -- The English play -- The French worry -- The Germans and Austrians organize -- The ladies ski -- The great war -- Uneasy peace -- Les Annees Folles -- The winter Olympic games of Chamonix, St. Moritz, Lake Placid -- Europeans abroad in the East -- Europeans abroad in the Americas -- Skiing under siege -- The Schneider phenomenon -- The Russo-Finnish War.

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