Sports & Recreation
How to Camp Out
Read by Sarah Jennings
John Mead Gould
Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments
Read by Phil Benson
Walter Ferdinando Grew
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…
Short Works on Sports Collection 01
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Various
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Read by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont
Clarence King
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…
Association Football and How to Play It
Read by Ben Adams
John Cameron
An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most…
Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball
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William Hanford Edwards
A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)
Pleasure Cycling
Read by TriciaG
Henry Clyde
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…
Diversions in Sicily
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Henry Festing Jones
Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to …
Girl Scout Collection
Read by Betsie Bush
Various
These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…
Pitching in a Pinch
Read by Lee Smalley
Christy Mathewson
In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciti…
Greek Athletics
Read by Heather Eney
Frederick Adam Wright
The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts fro…
An Angler's Hours
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Hugh Tempest Sheringham
One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…
Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most passionate of natural conservationsts having establish five national parks, 18 national monuments, an…
Cycling in the Alps
Read by Phil Benson
C. L. Freeston
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking
Read by Curt Walton
Edmund Bert
An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good …
My Thirty Years In Baseball
Read by Cavaet
John McGraw and John Mcgraw
The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed t…
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket
Read by Phil Benson
Richard Gorton Barlow
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…
With Swag and Billy: A Guide to Walking Trips in Tourist Districts of New South…
Read by Phil Benson
Henry J. Tompkins
A guide to hikes around Sydney, Australia, from the early years of the twentieth century. In 1895, Henry J. Tompkins and William Mogford Ham…
The Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydne…
Read by Phil Benson
Sydney Morning Herald
In early 1907 the world of Australian rugby was rocked by the news that a professional New Zealand All Blacks team was set to tour the north…
A Ball Player's Career
Read by Cavaet
Adrian C. Anson
The biography of one of the greatest players that the game of baseball of his era, in his own words. "Cap" Anson, quite probably b…