PDF Books in Children's Sports & Recreation
Camp-Lore and Woodcraft
by Dan BeardCamp Lore and Woodcraft is a camping guide written by Daniel Carter Beard, an American author and social reformer, remembered for foundations laid him for the organization Boy Scouts of America. An explorer of nature has written many books on camping including The American Boy's Handy Book, The American Boy's Book of Sport, The Outdoor Ha..
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
by William Hamilton GibsonCamp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making is written by William Hamilton Gibson, an American naturalist and illustrator, whose publishing works include The Complete American Trapper, Pastoral Days, Highways and Byways, Happy Hunting Grounds and My Studio Neighbours. The author mentions in his preface that the trapping as ..
Deadfalls and Snares
by A. R. HardingDeadfalls and Snares is an illustrative book on the art of trapping animals written by Arthur Robert Harding, an American outdoors-man who is remembered for his instructional series books such as Fox Trapping, Mink Trapping, Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants, Fur Farming, Wolf and Coyote Trapping and Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins. This boo..
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..
The Open Polar Sea
by I. I. HayesThe design of this book may be briefly explained. I have attempted little more than a personal narrative, endeavoring to select from my abundant notes such scenes and incidents of adventure as seemed to me best calculated to bring before the mind of the reader, not merely the history of our voyage, but a general view of the Arctic regions,—its scen..
Modern dancing and dancers
by J. E. Crawford FlitchIt is not unlikely that when the art historian of the future comes to treat of the artistic activity of the first decade of the twentieth century, he will remark as one of its most notable accomplishments a renaissance of the art of the Dance.That this renaissance is an accomplished fact, is a matter of common knowledge. Within a relatively short p..
Jackson's Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist
by Edwin Ward JacksonThe subject of this little work develops, on anatomical and physiological principles, a system of Gymnastics for the Fingers and Wrist, the object of which is—, to lay a solid and scientific foundation for the acquisition of technical skill in the fingers and wrist, as applied to the playing on musical instruments and to finger-work generally.For a..
The Rockspur Eleven
by Burt L. StandishDanny Chatterton came up the street whistling a merry tune, while Don Scott lay under an apple-tree back of his father’s house, munching an apple and scowling blackly, although the September afternoon was pleasant and sunny enough to put any boy in an agreeable humor. Judging by the sour expression on Don’s face one might never have fancied the hal..