Sportsmen and GamesmenHoughton Mifflin, 1981 - 350 pages |
Contents
The Sportsman and the Hermitage | 3 |
The General and the Colonel | 23 |
William T Porter and the Spirit of the Times | 47 |
Copyright | |
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