On the Origin of Hockey (Paperback) by Patrick Houda, Jean-Patrice Martel, Carl Giden

9780993799808. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 286. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 286 p. Contains: Illustrations. "The debate about the origin of hockey appears to be as old as the debate about the origin of species, though if we compare the number of pages dedicated in every day's newspapers to hockey and those dedicated to animals and plants, the relative importance of each quickly becomes obvious (well, to hockey fans at least). Hockey historians have been looking for the smallest piece of evidence that would reveal the secrets of the origin of hockey. However a wealth of evidence is available -- as soon as one starts looking in the right place. This book does not present a new theory based on slivers of evidence. It is a presentation of known facts about the origins of hockey, based on tens of thousands of words, from hundreds of sources, written about hockey played on the ice, with skates, before Montreal's first recorded game."--P [4] of cover.