White Planet (eBook)

A Mad Dash through Modern Global Ski Culture

Leslie Anthony (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
304 Seiten
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-55365-646-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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 in the early nineties when Alaska emerged as the ski worlds Next Big Thing. Steep faces and vast tracks of powder snow, were captured on film and beamed to audiences around the world. The result was a freeskiing revolution.With insight and humor, White Planet, traces an arc through the new ski culture, in a rock n roll adventure that follows a diaspora to far-flung corners of the globe. Along the way, Anthony introduces many of the daredevils, visionaries and entrepreneurs who are bringing the sport to such unexpected places as Mexico, China, Lebanon and India.

Autor

Leslie Anthony was bitten by the ski bug at the age of ten and has never looked back. Although he holds a PhD in zoology from the University of Toronto, was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Redpath Museum, and wrote Snakebit: Confessions of a Herpetologist, skiing has remained his first love. An avid adventurer, Anthony has won awards for both his poetry and is acclaimed for his work in outdoor, action sport, and general-interest magazines such as Skier, explore, and Powder, on whose masthead he’s appeared for 18 years. His ski writing has been published in seven languages in twelve countries. He lives in Whistler, B.C.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments viiPrologue: Legend 1A Gathering Storm1 | Smoke and Mirrors 72 | A Bum’s Rush 243 | Into the Deep 414 | The Big Empty 51The Revolution Will Not Be Televised5 | The Motherland 736 | A Scattering in a Cold Wind 967 | A Scattering in a Warm Wind 1208 | Last Salami, Last Pilgrim 145The Revolution May Be Televised After All9 | Icecapades 16310 | Just Say Cheese 17611 | X Marks the Spot 19212 | Just Shoot Me 211Another Gathering Storm13 | A Death in the Family 22714 | Invasion of the Powder Snatchers 23815 | Space, the Final Frontier 253Epilogue: Legend 287

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
• ISBN-10: 1-55365-646-6 / 1553656466
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-646-3 / 9781553656463