The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

About the Book

1911Published
The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire (ed.)Author
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The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games was edited by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire with Hedley Peek and F. G. Aflalo, and its contributors were specialists and practitioners rather than staff writers — Theodore Roosevelt on big-game hunting, R. Lydekker on the animals, county cricketers on cricket, yachtsmen on yachting.

It covers field sports, athletics, ball games, indoor games, and the newest sports of the age — motoring, ballooning, the aeroplane — with the rules, the measurements and the records as they stood.

Some practices described here, particularly in hunting and the taking of wild birds, are now illegal in most places; those pages carry a safety warning and the text is left exactly as printed.

All four volumes are presented here as a single work. This digital edition is built from a dual-engine OCR of 1,944 pages, reconciled page by page.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1911 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

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