{ "item_title" : "Tracks in the Snow", "item_author" : [" Peter Shelton "], "item_description" : "A collection of short essays, memories, and reflections on the magic and addictive pleasures of sliding down snow-covered mountains on skis. Intensely lived and intensely told tales of a life on skis, by on of America's most accomplished and literary ski writers, Peter Shelton.Tracks in the Snow won the International Skiing History Association 2018 Ullr award, presented for a single outstanding contribution or several contributions to skiing's historical record in published book form.Reviews and reactions have been unanimously and unabashedly enthusiastic: I am not a skier. And so when I began reading Tracks in the Snow I thought I might not be interested in all this about skiing. I was wrong. I soon began page-turning and was hooked... I read for many reasons, including for information, entertainment, insight, stimulation, brain exercise, word play and soul nutrition. When putting down Tracks in the Snow, at the end, I realized I had got something else from it. What to call it? The best I have come up with is Transfer of Experience. It was a wonderful experience.-Pat Cameron, Bend, Oregon, via emailShelton takes us on a trip through his life that reaffirms his reputation as one of the best skiing writers of our time.-Billy Cyr, in The Avalanche ReviewPeter is our literary Ullr.-Daiva Chesonis, owner Between the Covers Bookstore, Telluride: A skier's progress from boyhood to old-man-of-the-mountain. In a career spanning five decades, [Shelton] has acquired a following among readers who take sensuous pleasure in the way his sentences work.These essays explain to us our own gob-smacked passion for the sport, and bring vividly alive what it was to live for skiing in the last third of the 20th century. -Seth Masia in SkiingHistory.org", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/94/128/347/094128347X_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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