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On Yachts and Yacht Handling
by Thomas Fleming DayOn Yachts and Yacht Handling is guide book written by Thomas Fleming Day, an England born American and the founding editor of a boat magazine Rudder. The author says in his preface that, the word sailing in the literary world only recalls the adventurous fiction stories or autobiographies of heroes. This is not a book for fiction readers, rather it..
Old Taverns of New Yok
by William Harrison BaylesOld Taverns of New York is written by William Harrison Bayles. This book is an attempt by the author to narrate the historical event of Dutch settlement in America, which was a root cause for the rapid change and development of the Cities which created the requirement of extensive travel, in turn the need for Taverns. Taverns were once the only ..
Camping For Boys
by H. W. GibsonCamping For Boys is practical handbook for those who conduct the camping and participate in the camping. The author of this book, H. W. Gibson is having twenty three years of experience having lead and conducted camping. The book starts with an introduction on the purpose of camping and moves towards every aspect of camping such as leadership qu..
Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks
by Edward M. PlummerFew kinds of labor develop the body in a symmetrical manner. This is true even in an elementary division of labor. The carpenter and the blacksmith usually have strong, large shoulders and arms, but small and weak legs. The farmer, from excessive bending over his work, loses, in a greater or less degree, his elasticity of body, and often becomes st..
A Gamekeeper's Note-book
by Owen JonesA gamekeeper's notes are written for the most part on the tablets of his mind. He is a man of silence; yet he is ever ready to unlock the casket of his memories if old friends, and sympathetic, are about him. We have known keepers who could talk, when so minded, as well as they could shoot, making their points as certainly as they would bowl over a..
Silver Rags
by Willis Boyd AllenPet Sibley was a girl slightly younger than her companions, who lived near the Percivals in Boston. When the invitation came from uncle Will Percival in June for them to spend their summer vacation, or a part of it, with him and aunt Puss—as the children called his wife—at The Pines, the girls begged permission, which was heartily granted, to bring..
Motor Camping
by John Cuthbert LongMost of us are possessed of the desire to be somewhere else. Since the dawn of history hordes of men have pressed into new countries. Sometimes the expeditions have been in search of food and plunder, but mixed in with these motives has been the human passion for something better, the hope for sunnier scenes lying over the horizon. Hemmed in by the..