The Sled Book: Notes Concerning Winter's Favorite Pastime

By Brice J. Hoskin

A successful sledmaker takes readers through a brief history of sleds and sledding, and taps into the emotional pull that many of us feel when we see those first frosty snowflakes-and a classic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594850690
• ISBN13: 9781594850691
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Pretty good book

This is a nice little book that looks great on my coffee table and I've had a few guests flip through it already. I found the articles on the history of sledding and different styles of sleds especially interesting. Sledding has been a favorite pass-time of mine for as long as I can remember and it's great to have a book that celebrates that (as opposed to the many that focus only on skiing.) However, I'm not one of those people who all but refuses to give a perfectly good product a five star rating. It's just that the main reason I bought this book was when I found out that it had an entire section on "building a better sled". I'm an avid do-it-yourselfer and am in the process of building my own sled so I had to get the only book out there that could really help me at the moment. However, the section turned out to be a very general story of how the author began his sled building company. That section was really of no help. Still, I'm glad I bought this book and would definately reccomend it to a friend!

Great Book!

This is a wonderful book! I purchased it for my 17 year old daughter who will be attending college in the north where they get a lot of snow. She loved it! I love the "old" look of the book. It brought back memories of the wonderful books I read as a child. I highly recommend it!

Interesting little book on sledding...

I liked this book very much - it's short and sweet. Lots of tips on good sledding technique, the history of sledding, and even apres sledding drink recipes...makes you want to get out there in the white stuff.