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Ski-running
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Title: Ski-running
Author: Katharine Symonds Furse
Release Date: February 7, 2004 [EBook #10969]
Language: English
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SKI-RUNNING
BY
KATHARINE FURSE
G.B.E., R.R.C.
WITH MAP AND FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
1924
PREFACE
So many excellent books have been written about Ski-ing that it is, perhaps, presumptuous on my part to think that there is room for another.
Mr. Vivien Caulfeild in his "How to Ski" and "Ski-ing Turns," as well as Mr. Arnold Lunn in his "Ski-ing for Beginners," "Cross Country Ski-ing" and "Alpine Ski-ing," have covered all the ground of the technique discovered up to date. What future discoveries and inventions may be made, requiring new books, no one knows as yet.
Had it not been for the help and coaching these two exponents of Ski-ing have given to me personally, I should never have been able to enjoy the sport to the extent I do now, because I should probably have been content to continue running across country, falling whenever I wanted