Another new book out in January!

[76olympics]

This one is a real tome-over 400 pages. It is touted as a general history of figure skating. If the writing is inspired and the photographs copious, it might be a good buy. I love the Olympics for quite a few reasons-not the least for the books that seem to precede it (and succeed it).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_3/102-2685558-5074502?v=glance&s=books

 

[Julie O]

Thanks very much for your post! I might be looking at a Christmas present to myself lol. It's "on sale" right now, before publication, so it's easier to justify.

Julie, who also loves books and has a growing collection of skating books that could use an addition.

 

[Eeyora]

When I click on the link it comes up Document not found. Anyway it sounds great. There are so few books like that.

 

[dlkksk8fan]

I've seen that one already on Amazon.

Julie O- I have a skating book collection.

 

[amykaren]

Thanks for posting the link. I have just about every figure skating book out there. There has been too few published in the last couple years. :sheesh:

 

[jesslily]

Hope I will get a copy soon. In local book stores, the figure skating book section is getting smaller or disappeared, even in northeast, a relatively large town.

 

[Jackbox9999]

I did I quick word search on Amazon to get a feel for how the book reads and I already found one error!:scratch: The author notes that at the 2002 Olympics Plushenko won the SP and the 1st FS. He says however, Yagudin won the 2nd FS and subsequently the gold medal. It seems oddly and inaccurately worded!

 

[cmego500]

I The author notes that at the 2002 Olympics Plushenko won the SP and the 1st FS. He says however, Yagudin won the 2nd FS and subsequently the gold medal. It seems oddly and inaccurately worded!

U'd think that they would do research before writting a book.

 

[terisalyn]

I did I quick word search on Amazon to get a feel for how the book reads and I already found one error!:scratch: The author notes that at the 2002 Olympics Plushenko won the SP and the 1st FS. He says however, Yagudin won the 2nd FS and subsequently the gold medal. It seems oddly and inaccurately worded!

That was the GPF results from that season. But never fear, Christopher Newport University is right down the street from me; perhaps I'll drop in on Prof. Hines and clue him in!

 

[singerskates]

This one is a real tome-over 400 pages. It is touted as a general history of figure skating. If the writing is inspired and the photographs copious, it might be a good buy. I love the Olympics for quite a few reasons-not the least for the books that seem to precede it (and succeed it).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_3/102-2685558-5074502?v=glance&s=books

This book was definately written by a US writer. Not much attention is given to non-US skaters. Looking in the index you see that US skaters who didn't do all that much in the ISU competitons got more reading time than non-US skaters who changed the world of skating as we know it and may have also had more world medals and better results.

Translation, a Canadian version and other country versions of this book should be written so that all of the skaters who changed skating as we know it, get their fair recognition.

singerskates

 

[treeskater]

I just looked at the Index and I found many, many non-USA skaters who indeed did impact the world of skating. Ben Wright's book was the USFSA history while this one is more in the line of the 1959 Nigel Brown's classic history "Ice-Skating, a History" including the chapter divisions. I will be very curious to see this new book and the bibliography to see where he drew his information from (how extensive was his research.)

400 pages doesn't allow for a full description of all of skating's history throughout the world. There has never been a book published that is 100% correct....cross-referencing takes a lot of time.

Owner of 400+ historical skating books back to the early 1800's........