Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating
by Steve Milton
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Author: Steve MiltonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08
ISBN: 157076056X
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Book Reviews of Skate: 100 Years of Figure Skating
Book Review: Uhm.....no thanks.
Summary: 2 Stars
I have the first printing of this book (the one with Bourne and Kraatz on the cover) and I was less than impressed with it. It had a horrendously enormous Canadian bias in it -- if reviewers who complained about Beverly Smith's Figure Skating: A Celebration having too much of a Canadian bias picked up this book, they would be beside themselves. There are certainly many great skaters from Canada, but the lengths this book went to in including low level Canadian skaters while excluding high profile skaters from other countries was absurd. For example, on one page there were several young ladies skaters pictured in color from Canada who might be well known there, however they are all but anonymous to the casual skating public at large. Prominent skaters like Kristi Yamaguchi, an Olympic gold medalist, on the other hand, were all but ignored in this book. Some of the pictures were also erroneously labeled as well. Some of the book was nice -- it had some interesting pictures I've not seen in other books. Hopefully in this next printing of the book (the one shown above) these many problems were fixed -- I only have the first edition so that's the only one I can review. Unless huge changes were made to eliminate the bias in the edition I own, however, I cannot recommend this book to any knowledgeable skating fan.
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