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Smith & Wesson Hand Guns by Roy C. McHenry
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Roy C. McHenry

CHAPTER XVII. COLT hand-ejector pocket revolvers in .32 caliber had been made for about IS years and Smith & Wesson side-swingers had been on the market for four years in ...
( Category: Wildlife March 4,2019 )
The Best American Sports Writing 2016 by Rick Telander
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Telander

If there is an epicenter for the heroin-in-sports crisis, it’s Albuquerque (population 550,000), a high-altitude city less than 300 miles from the Mexican border. A report by the New Mexico ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction February 24,2017 )
Run the World by Becky Wade
epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Becky Wade

The Yaya Girls and me with the stash of mysterious plants we’d collected in a stranger’s field. Photograph courtesy of the author WEARING AN ADIDAS SWEAT SUIT color-blocked in green, ...
( Category: Running & Jogging November 28,2016 )
Side Casts by Hoagy B. Carmichael
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Hoagy B. Carmichael

Steve Bravar offered “Carson” tools in his Great American Rod Shop catalogue. One day in 1982, while I was appearing at a sportsman’s show in New York State, a man ...
( Category: Fishing April 8,2016 )
Everything They Had by David Halberstam & Glenn Stout
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:David Halberstam & Glenn Stout

A HERO FOR THE WIRED WORLD From Sports Illustrated, December 23, 1991 IN SOME MYSTERIOUS WAY THE WORD HAS GOTTEN OUT. The Chicago Bulls bus, the bus that he rides ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction January 13,2016 )
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Bill Buford [Buford, Bill]

DAWES ROAD, FULHAM I was reading the morning newspapers in the coffeehouse in Ober Sankt Veit. I can still feel the indignation that overwhelmed me when I took hold of ...
( Category: Essays November 27,2015 )
Raw: My 100% Grade-A, Unfiltered, Inside Look at Sports by Colin Cowherd
epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Colin Cowherd [Cowherd, Colin]

MEMO TO COACHES: DID YOU EVER IMPROVE AT ANYTHING WHEN SOMEBODY YELLED AT YOU? THE SOUTHERN ILLUSION YOU HEAR COMMENTATORS AND COACHES and executives say it all the time: Nothing ...
( Category: Essays November 10,2015 )
The Fish's Eye: Essays About Angling and the Outdoors by Frazier Ian
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2003-02-28 | Author:Frazier, Ian [Frazier, Ian]

(1997) IN THE BRAIN On one of the long motoring vacations my family used to take—five kids on a mattress in the back of the station wagon, our parents in ...
( Category: Fishing October 10,2015 )
The Fish's Eye by Ian Frazier
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:Ian Frazier

(1997) IN THE BRAIN On one of the long motoring vacations my family used to take—five kids on a mattress in the back of the station wagon, our parents in ...
( Category: Fishing October 10,2015 )
Man Eaters Of Kumaon by Corbett Jim
epub, mobi |eng | 1944-09-07 | Author:Corbett,Jim.

And now he appears to have made up his mind to leave this reach of the river for the rapids below the pool. In one strong steady run he reaches ...
( Category: Cultural September 8,2015 )
The Temple Tiger and more Man-Eaters of Kumaon (1954) by Jim Corbett
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Corbett

of the peninsula. Here the Sarda widens out and shallows, and flows for two hundred yards over rocks before entering a big pool. It was at the upper end of ...
( Category: General September 8,2015 )
Postcards From The Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child by Greg Child
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Greg Child [Child, Greg]

KAFKA COULD NOT HAVE CONCEIVED A MAZE MORE CONFOUNDING than the Ministry of Tourism in Islamabad. In this musty building, square one in the game that mountaineers play each summer ...
( Category: Photo Essays June 10,2015 )
Andre the Giant by Michael Krugman
epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Michael Krugman

December 8, 1987: SunDome, Tampa, FL CRAIG DEGEORGE INTERVIEWS TED DIBIASE (W/VIRGIL) “I frankly thought we had put to rest this issue of buying the heavyweight championship,” says interviewer Craig ...
( Category: Wrestling May 27,2015 )
The Downhill Lie by Hiaasen Carl
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Hiaasen, Carl [Hiaasen, Carl]

The Tiger Beat For me, the only thing more nerve-wracking than golfing with strangers is boarding airplanes with strangers. Or boarding alone, for that matter. Or with 250 nuns, each ...
( Category: Golf March 31,2015 )
I've Never Met an Idiot on the River by Henry Winkler
epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Henry Winkler

Chapter 4 Casting for Joy Recorded in August 2010 in Idaho on Henry’s Fork, a tributary of the Snake River Hi. So here we are. It is Sunday morning. It ...
( Category: Parenting & Families March 5,2015 )

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