Recreation Books

The Game of Go - The National Game of Japan

Arthur Smith

This book is intended as a practical guide to the game of Go. It is especially designed to assist students of the game who have acquired a smattering of it in some way and who wish to investigate it f..

The Velocipede - Its History, Varieties, and Practice

J. T. Goddard

It is the design of this little work, not only to give a few simple directions to guide the beginner, but to give the history of the machine from its first origin, to treat accurately and impartially ..

Drinks of the World

John Ashton

We have generally avoided the profane use of trade or professional jargon, too often the outcome of ignorance, pretence, and affectation, such as “full,” “fruity,” “smooth on palate,” “round in the mo..

Motor Camping

John Cuthbert Long

There are many thousands of acres of free camping grounds in the national and state public playgrounds. In addition, nearly every town west of the Appalachians has its camp site, while on the Atlantic..

Wanderings in Three Continents

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Burton was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the world—​as a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little ..

To the American Indian

Lucy Thompson

HE Old Klamath Bluffs Store, or fort, and in late years the Klamath Post Office, was built in 1855 or 1856, by a man named Snider. He conducted it as a trading post for Indians, soldiers and travelers..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

James Augustus St. John

PETER SIMON PALLAS: This traveller, whose works are comparatively little known in England, was born at Berlin, September 22, 1741. His father, who was an able surgeon, entertained the design of educat..

The Chinese Dragon

L. Newton Hayes

The subject of this little book is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a large part in Chinese thought through four thousand and more years. Eve..