eBook Update: The School of Recreation
Feb. 14th, 2006 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurI haven't been posting many links to the Project Gutenberg site lately; I've been mainly keeping an eye out for particularly interesting books. Today I noticed one: The School of Recreation. It's a bit post-period (1696), but useful in enough fields to be worth a mention.
It's an overview of many different recreational topics. Of particular interest, it covers: Bowling and Tennis (both only briefly, I'd afraid); Riding and Racing; the Science of Defense (that is, fencing); and Ringing of the Bells (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miraclaire, are you listening?). It also has sections on Military Discipline and a bunch of sections of Things You Do With Animals (Hunting, Hawking, Angling, etc). Neat little book, and worth checking out. My only real annoyance is that the frontispiece clearly shows a couple of people playing at billiards, but the book fails to actually deal with the topic; humph.
While I'm at it, my nominee for the latest Amusingly Useless Book: Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae, a 1638 grammar of Japanese -- written in Latin...
It's an overview of many different recreational topics. Of particular interest, it covers: Bowling and Tennis (both only briefly, I'd afraid); Riding and Racing; the Science of Defense (that is, fencing); and Ringing of the Bells (
miraclaire, are you listening?). It also has sections on Military Discipline and a bunch of sections of Things You Do With Animals (Hunting, Hawking, Angling, etc). Neat little book, and worth checking out. My only real annoyance is that the frontispiece clearly shows a couple of people playing at billiards, but the book fails to actually deal with the topic; humph.While I'm at it, my nominee for the latest Amusingly Useless Book: Ars grammaticae Iaponicae linguae, a 1638 grammar of Japanese -- written in Latin...