Recreation Books

The Blue Book of Chess

Howard Staunton

The Blue Book of Chess, teaching the rudiments of the game, and giving an analysis of all the recognized openings is written by Howard Staunton, an English chess master who is generally regarded as ha..

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08

Robert Kerr

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels is a multi volume edition of popular explorers arranged in systematic order forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation..

Five Years in New Zealand

Robert B. Booth

Five Years in New Zealand is a travel work written by Robert B. Booth. The islands of New Zealand, discovered by the Dutch navigator, Tasman, in 1642, and surveyed and explored by Captain Cooke in 176..

At the Sign of the Barber's Pole - Studies In Hirsute History

William Andrews

Preface by Author:Connected with the barber and his calling are many curiosities of history. In the following pages, an attempt has been made, and I trust not without success, to bring together notice..

Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

Rudyard Kipling

Three books of travel writing by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting outsider's vi..

Chess and Checkers - the Way to Mastership

Edward Lasker

The present world war has given great impetus to the game of Chess. In the prison camps, in the field hospitals, in the training camps and even in the trenches Chess has become a favorite occupation i..

Hunting with the Bow & Arrow

Saxton T. Pope

Hunting with the Bow & Arrow is a sporting fiction story written by Saxton Temple Pope, an American doctor, teacher, author and outdoorsman. He is most famous as the father of modern bow hunt..

Outdoor Sports and Games

Claude H. Miller

Outdoor Sports and Games is a recreation book on outdoor life and games written by Claude H. Miller.Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It..