LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 5)

Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments

Read by Phil Benson

Walter Ferdinando Grew

From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry se…

Short Works on Sports Collection 01

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Various

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

Read by Melanie Schleeter McCalmont

Clarence King

"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…

Association Football and How to Play It

Read by Ben Adams

John Cameron

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…

Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

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William Hanford Edwards

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

Pleasure Cycling

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Henry Clyde

"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful inform…

Diversions in Sicily

Read by R. S. Steinberg

Henry Festing Jones

Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to …

Girl Scout Collection

Read by Betsie Bush

Various

These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of t…

Pitching in a Pinch

Read by Lee Smalley

Christy Mathewson

In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... It’s as good as his pitching and some exciti…

Cycling in the Alps

Read by Phil Benson

C. L. Freeston

A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…

Greek Athletics

Read by Heather Eney

Frederick Adam Wright

The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts fro…

An Angler's Hours

Read by Adrian Praetzellis

Hugh Tempest Sheringham

One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…

Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most passionate of natural conservationsts having establish five national parks, 18 national monuments, an…

Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking

Read by Curt Walton

Edmund Bert

An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good …

Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket

Read by Phil Benson

Richard Gorton Barlow

R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the b…

My Thirty Years In Baseball

Read by Cavaet

John McGraw and John Mcgraw

The autobiography of John Joseph McGraw, another one of the "greats" of baseball. McGraw, along with Casey Stengel, has managed t…

Sports & Recreation

John McGraw and John Mcgraw