{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-snowboarding-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Snowboarding (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Snowboarding is a large format visual study of snowboarding in colour: boards, bindings and boots, halfpipes and terrain parks, powder fields and high ridges, board materials and care tools, and small riders in mountain settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe kit is laid out plain on the snow: a whole board seen from above and from the side, a single binding with its highback and straps, laced boots and a boot with a dial, goggles, a helmet, mittens, a splitboard with climbing skins, a beacon, probe and shovel, and a pack with a board strapped on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies of board materials move from poplar planks to glued core strips, fibreglass cloth and a plastic base sheet. Care tools include a waxing iron and an edge file, with a binding disc shown separately. Historical forms appear as a wooden board with a rope at its nose, a swallow tail and rubber foot straps, alongside carved wooden goggles, snowshoes, wooden skis, a rope tow, a single lift chair and a rough halfpipe with shovels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe settings range from winter dawns to moonlit nights and from spring thaw to a summer glacier: a halfpipe at first light, under floodlights and at sunset, a terrain park at dawn, groomed corduroy, a chairlift in fog, a bowl under a full moon, cornices, gullies, avalanche paths, pillows and wind lips. Small riders appear in scenes of carving, jumping, rail sliding and climbing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book, on the parts of the board, how it is made and cared for, and the snow and mountains riders seek out: a snowboard is one wide board with both feet bound across it, so the rider stands sideways, a typical strap binding holds the boot with an ankle strap and a toe strap, a tabletop jump has a flat top between the takeoff and the landing, and a snowboard can leave a broad, winding track through fresh powder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68251179811120,"sku":"9671456009001","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-snowboarding-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}