Sports & Recreation

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Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges

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Amos Alonzo Stagg - Scientific and Practical Treatise on American Football for Schools and Colleges

Ever wondered how football has changed over the years? Look no further! This selection of rules, positions, and explanations of how football was played in the late 1800s is sure to leave you with a greater knowledge...

Campbell Schelp 5 hours 41 minutes

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Health & Fitness

504

Henry Clyde - Pleasure Cycling

«In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful information and advice to those who intend joining the army of wheelmen, or who, in...

TriciaG 3 hours 14 minutes

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Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08)

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Sydney Morning Herald - Birth of Professional Rugby League in Australia: A selection from the Sydney Morning Herald (1907-08)

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 northern counties of Engliand, where professional rugby had been a reality for...

Phil Benson 4 hours 31 minutes

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John Mead Gould - How to Camp Out

Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern readers may be amused by Maj. Gould's few remarks on ladies, who «must be cared for...

Sarah Jennings 2 hours 29 minutes

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Guides to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens 1891-1917

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Guides to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens 1891-1917

Guides to the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens from the Chetham's Library Virtual Belle Vue Collection. The Belle Vue gardens opened in 1836 as a place of genteel entertainment for the middle classes of industrial...

Phil Benson 2 hours 57 minutes

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Hudson Stuck - Ascent of Denali

The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of the restoration of the mountain's original name. ( summary by Fritz)

Phil Schempf 4 hours 27 minutes

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Animals

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George S. Anderson - American Big-Game Hunting

The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Note: «Hunting big game in the wilderness is, above all things, a sport for a...

Michele Fry and 6 more 6 hours 44 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Boy Scouts of America - Boy Scouts Handbook

The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled...

Kangaroo and 19 more 13 hours 34 minutes

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Sports Fiction

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Short Works on Sports Collection 01

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics,...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Sports & Recreation

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John Cameron - Association Football and How to Play It

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 interesting figure who played for both Everton and Tottenham, was a P.O.W....

Ben Adams 1 hour 58 minutes

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Nature

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Nessmuk - Woodcraft

George Washington Sears, who many know better by his pen name «Nessmuk», was an outdoor writer during the last half of the 19th century, writing most often for the magazine «Field and Forest», the predecessor of...

Phil Schempf 3 hours 29 minutes

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Animals

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Edmund Bert - Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking

An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good conditions. The second, How to reclaime a Hawke from any ill condition. The...

Curt Walton 3 hours 1 minute

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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