A New Book of Sports (Classic Reprint)

<i>A New Book of Sports</i> is an encyclopedia of sorts focusing on sports, games, and outdoor activities. The book dedicates individual chapters to more than 40 different activities, including deer-hunting, curling, marbles, boxing, cricket, chess, sea-fishing, and much more. The author approaches the subject matter from a more personal perspective than one would find in a true reference book, and many of the entries include detailed personal accounts. Most entries include a brief history of the activity, and commentary on its status in the world at the time of the book's publication.<br><br><i>A New Book of Sports</i> is a book that will appeal to anybody interested in the history of sports and games. It is an interesting read, and an extensive text, including entries on quite a wide range of topics. If you are curious about popular sporting activities outside the usual crowd of football, baseball etc. this book is a worthwhile addition to your personal library.<br><br>It should be noted that this republication contains pages reprinted in different formats, and thus text size varies from page to page.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.