Roland Huntford: 2 books
Two Planks and a Passion
The Dramatic History of Skiing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
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...
Nansen
The Explorer as Hero
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Behind the great polar explorers of the early twentieth century - Amundsen, Shackleton, Scott in the South and Peary in the North - looms the spirit of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the mentor of them all. He was the father of modern polar exploration, the last act of territorial discovery before the...