Download or read book The Essential Cross-country Skier written by Paul Petersen and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to cross-country skiing is designed to get the reader out of the chair and onto the slopes in the first three chapters. Once on the trail, the authors take up the finer points of technique and training, demonstrating how it should be done with numerous photo sequences of techniques and top-notch, detailed illustrations.