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WINTER SPORTS SIMPLIFIED

WINTER SPORTS SIMPLIFIED

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A guide to how to go about pursuing winter sports, with chapters on when to go, which resort, travel arrangements, clothing and gear, learning to ski, ski-jumping, tobogganning & lugeing, skating, ice-hockey, curling.

8vo. 159pp. Frontispiece, 14 plates. Pale brown cloth. Scattered foxing to titlepage and prelims. A very good copy.

Date
1927
Publisher
Thornton Butterworth
Author
H.G. STOKES (et al)

£24.00 (Code: 22081)

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