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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Winter sports
The Chicago Blackhawks, one of the NHL’s “Original Six,” have
been building their storied legacy for decades. Since their
founding in 1926, the Hawks have won six Stanley Cup championships
and produced dozens of standout stars, from Hall of Fame goaltender
Mike Karakas in the ’30s to Bobby “The Golden Jet” Hull in
the ’60s to current team captain Jonathan Toews. And the Chicago
Tribune, the team’s hometown newspaper, has been covering it all
from the very beginning. Published to coincide with the start of
the 2017–18 season, The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago
Blackhawks is a decade-by-decade look at the city’s 21st-century
sports dynasty. Curated by the Chicago Tribune sports department,
this book documents every era in the team’s history, from the
1920s to the present day, through the newspaper’s original
reporting, in-depth analysis, comprehensive timelines, and archival
photos. Each chapter includes profiles on key coaches and players,
highlighting the top players from each decade as well as every
Stanley Cup championship. Bonus “overtime” material—stats and
facts on championships, Hall of Famers, memorable trades, and
more—provides a blow-by-blow look at all 90 years of the
franchise’s history.
Dotted across the whole east-west width of the Alps, Italy's
resorts offer a powerful combination of attractions: top class
lifts, snowmaking and piste preparation, wonderful scenery,
unbeatable food and wine - and to top it off, the lowest prices in
western Europe. The book: - covers Italy's top 35 resorts in detail
- is fearlessly frank and uncompromisingly impartial in its
assessment of resorts - meets the needs of the many, not the few -
rates resorts for every standard of skier - includes scores of
photos and mountain maps - is designed to be used, with sewn
binding and cover flaps for convenient page marking Conceived by
the editors of Where to Ski and Snowboard, these new guides -
researched and written to the same high standards - have less of
the ephemeral detail that people can now get from the web, and more
in-depth analysis of the merits of resorts - and coverage of more
resorts, too.
With its famously warm welcome and an unrivalled range of
traditional resorts served by the world's best lift systems,
Austria comes a close second to France in the UK ski holiday market
- and it continues to grow, helped by reasonable prices. The book:
- covers Austria's top 80 resorts in detail - is fearlessly frank
and uncompromisingly impartial in its assessment of resorts - meets
the needs of the many, not the few - rates resorts for every
standard of skier - includes scores of photos and 30 mountain maps
- is designed to be used, with sewn binding and cover flaps for
convenient page marking Conceived by the editors of Where to Ski
and Snowboard, these new guides - researched and written to the
same high standards - have less of the ephemeral detail that people
can now get from the web, and more in-depth analysis of the merits
of resorts - and coverage of more resorts, too.
Amanda Lamarches debut collection of poetry is a work of
imaginative grace and power. These poems topple the normal
hierarchy of everyday concerns, promoting fears unlikely in the
normal state of being -- the fear of buttons, of dying to the wrong
song, of houses built on corners -- to the same stage and emotional
impact as the more common (perhaps more cliched) fears of car
crashes and collapsing bridges. The clever combination of
explorations emotional and playful carries on. Technical advice for
cutting down trees is juxtaposed with the development of ominous
personal overtones. The title sequence takes issue with the easy
laying down of language by recasting well-worn sayings: giving them
back-stories, situating them in real time and real places, and
reinvigorating them by providing each its own individual universe
from which to draw meaning. Amanda Lamarches refreshing poems
refuse at all the right moments to take themselves too seriously.
They have the amazing ability to make readers shift from out-loud
laughter to profound insight in a gasp of breath.
When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after
more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best
place to find world-class players who could help turn things around
more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All
they had to do then was make history by drafting them, then figure
out how to get them out. That's when the Wings turned to Keith
Gave, the newsman whose clandestine mission to Helsinki, Finland,
was the first phase of a of a years-long series of secret meetings
from posh hotel rooms to remote forests around Europe to
orchestrate their unlawful departures from the Soviet Union. One
defection created an international incident and made global
headlines. Another player faked cancer, thanks to the Wings'
extravagant bribes to Russian doctors, including a big American
car. Another player who wasn't quite ready to leave yet felt like
he was being kidnapped by an unscrupulous agent. Two others were
outcast when they stood up publicly against the Soviet regime,
winning their freedom to play in the NHL only after years of
struggle. They are the Russian Five: Sergei Fedorov, Viacheslav
Fetisov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Igor
Larionov. Their individual stories read like pulse-pounding spy
novels. The story that unfolded after they were brought together in
Detroit by the masterful coach Scotty Bowman is unforgettable. This
story includes details never before revealed, and by the man who
was there every step of the way -- from the day Detroit drafted its
first two Soviets in 1989 until they raised the Stanley Cup in
1997, then took it to Moscow for a victory lap around Red Square
and the Kremlin. The Russian Five did more to bridge Russian and
American relations than decades of diplomacy and detente between
the White House and the Kremlin. This is their story.
"Mr. Brunner's winning book is a reassuring, nostalgic reminder
that winter is the season of both play and regeneration."-Wall
Street Journal In Winterlust, a farmer painstakingly photographs
five thousand snowflakes, each one dramatically different from the
next. Indigenous peoples thrive on frozen terrain, where famous
explorers perish. Icicles reach deep underwater, then explode.
Rooms warmed by crackling fires fill with scents of cinnamon,
cloves, and pine. Skis carve into powdery slopes, and iceboats
traverse glacial lakes. This lovingly illustrated meditation on
winter entwines the spectacular with the everyday, expertly
capturing the essence of a beloved yet dangerous season, which is
all the more precious in an era of climate change "Brunner
masterfully does in words what resilient and adventurous people
have done in their lives for centuries; he finds beauty in
blizzards and ice and the crystallized enchantment of snow." -Dan
Egan, Pulitzer finalist and author of The Death and Life of the
Great Lakes
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