Puckstruck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puckstruck write by Stephen Smith. This book was released on 2014. Puckstruck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn't quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That's where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey's Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.
Puckstruck
Puckstruck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puckstruck write by Stephen Smith. This book was released on 2014-10-25. Puckstruck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn’t quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That’s where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey’s Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey’s literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey’s narratives in search of hockey’s heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.
The Game of Our Lives
The Game of Our Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Game of Our Lives write by Peter Gzowski. This book was released on 2004. The Game of Our Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game. The Game of Our Lives is the best book on the Canadian passion for hockey; a wondrously perceptive account of the hold the game has on Canadians. —Jack Granatstein, The National Post
Puck
Puck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puck write by . This book was released on 1877. Puck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Puck of Pook's Hill, 1905-1906
Puck of Pook's Hill, 1905-1906 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Puck of Pook's Hill, 1905-1906 write by Rudyard Kipling. This book was released on 1910. Puck of Pook's Hill, 1905-1906 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
