Today's (2/4/2012) New Book Releases on Sports & Outdoors

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Jansen, McClurg and company in 1882 in 163 pages; Subjects: Camping; History / General; Law / General; Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / International; Sports & Recreation / Camping; Travel / Essays & Travelogues;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Cupples, Upham and Company in 1883 in 152 pages; Subjects: Fishing; Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation / Fishing; Sports & Recreation / History;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Macmillan in 1900 in 565 pages; Subjects: Travel; Hunting; Fishing; Voyages and travels; Travel by physicians; Sports & Recreation / Fishing; Sports & Recreation / Hunting; Travel / Essays & Travelogues;

The Form Book Flat Annual for 2012 contains all the results for the 2011 Flat season, plus a unique comment for each runner, a race comment, and notes for all noteworthy performances. A full index shows the race number for every runner. This book is the only title of its kind on the market and has a rich history going back over 70 years. The title has the full resources of the Racing Post Group in building up the extensive data for over 4,000 races and ensuring the presentation of the information is clear, accurate and a pleasure to read. All keen racing enthusiasts will want this title in their racing library, not only as a record of last year, but as a guide for things to come.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... At about three o'clock on a cold dark winter's morning the writer was aroused by a shuffling and stamping of feet in the hall of his modest mansion in Brittany. 'Qui va la?' he shouted, and the answer came in gruff tones up the staircase, 'UnOurs!' to the accompaniment of the sound of stifled laughter. The voice proved to proceed from Maturin, a queer combination of keeper, groom, and gardener, in which capacities he served Shirley, an English resident in these parts. He was the bearer of a note despatched on the previous evening, but the numerous auberges on the way had delayed its transmission and had reduced Maturin to a condition suitable for playing ' Ours' or any other tomfoolery. However, luckily the state of the messenger did not affect the message, which contained the concise statement: 'M. de Carnoet's hounds at the copse of Moclau at daybreak.' At daybreak! We English rather pride ourselves on our keen sporting instincts, but our hunting-fields would be shorn of their unwieldy dimensions if our hounds were at the covertside at such a time all through the winter. But the early hour had no effect on the muster of gentle or simple by the copse of Moclau. All the neighbouring gentry were there in their dogcarts. There were M. le Baron, M. le Comte, M. de This, and M. de That, Bretons all, besides a French major on a good-looking roan charger, a jolly-looking priest or two, and peasants by the score, on foot. Among the latter were one or two real ancient Bretons clad in shaggy goatskin coats, with their own long hair falling in dishevelled ringlets from under their queer-looking caps, while their nether garments consisted of coarse sackcloth bragov-bras, the trunk hose of our ancestors. Picturesque-looking fellows these. But the majority wore the or...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy in 1826 in 192 pages; Subjects: Wales; Voyages and travels; History / Europe / Great Britain; Sports & Recreation / Sailing; Travel / General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848. Excerpt: ... twenty-seven years; more than twenty as masier; aud I do not recollect of receiving a Pilot out of sight of the land that the Hook light-house stands on, but once; and that was something more than two years since; during the time there was an opposition Pilot Boat on the station. I was boarded by a news collector (I think the Courier and Enquirer's boat) at about half-past 6 P. M. within half a mile of the shore, and about ten miles south of the Hook, who informed me that a pilot boat was a short distance ahead, and would soon board me. I did not believe him, and told him so, never having seen nor heard of an instance of the kind before; but it was true for once, and I arrived in town at 11 P. M. "I have brought the ship Indiana from sea, and beat into the Hook without a pilot, with the wind west, and arrived at the city without being spoken by one. I do not believe that I have taken a pilot outside of the outer buoys once in five times since I have sailed from the port. "It is a matter of notoriety, wherever I have been acquainted with ship-masters and commercial men that travel by sea in Europe, Africa, North and South America--the negligence and inattention of New York pilots. It is a bye-word, 'As lazy as a New York pilot.' You cannot say any thing more gratirfg to a seaman: if he is black he will consider himself highly insulted, and I certainly think so too." (Signed,) Affirmed to before me this-, GIDEON PARKER. 18th day of January, 1837. ( Fred. Blatchford, / Notary Public. ) 2. Capt. Post's Statement. "Ship Tuskina, from Mobile, R.'N. Post, Master. "Jan. 17, 1834, I arrived off the port of New York, Highlands bearing West, 4 miles; set signal for a pilot--clear weather--wind W.N.W. At 8j o'clock came on the bar in i to 5 fathoms water, Sandy Hook ...