Book - Australian Skiing: the First 100 Years, Wendy Cross, 2012

Physical description

A volume of 280 pages including Illustrations, maps, portraits, a Bibliography and an Index.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

Introduces the extraordinary people who carved the initial tracks in the snowfields and the gold-miners, cattlemen, engineers and others who contributed to the development of resorts, where skiing was pursued both as a sport and a recreation. The book also explodes some of the origin myths of Australian skiing.

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