Coffee Break Collection 28 - Hobbies
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20 chapters · 2 h 44 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Rita Boutros, William Allan Jones, Colleen McMahon, ashten999, BettyB and others
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This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection is "HOBBIES"... and the collection is full after 20 pieces have been submitted.
Chapters
1 Amateur Radio Handbook: Introduction by A. Frederick Collins 12 min 2 excerpt from The Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane 16 min 3 Birdie by Elizabeth Brightwen 9 min 4 A-Birding Among the New Jersey Pines by Creswell J. Hunt 6 min 5 Casey At The Bat, by Earnest Lawrence Thayer 4 min 6 The Choice of a Boat by A.J. Kenealy 9 min 7 Collecting Playing Cards by Charles William Taussig 8 min 8 Coursing the Prongbuck by Theodore Roosevelt 13 min 9 Feeding Birds in Summer and Winter by Elizabeth Brightwen 8 min 10 Flying Kites by Anonymous, from "The Mastery of Air" 6 min 11 The Gentle Art of Quilting by Clara B. Miller, article from Good Housekeeping magazine, August, 1896 6 min 12 Home Dressmaking from Armour's Monthly Cook Book October 1913 edited by Mary Jane McClure 3 min 13 Mrs. Washington's Eternal Knitting by Fanny Fern 4 min 14 Old English Embroidery by Emily Leigh Lowes 7 min 15 Poultry for Beginners by Eric Wood 14 min 16 The Hobby Rider by Jerome K. Jerome 17 min 17 The Romance of Stamp Collecting by Edward J. Nankivell 6 min 18 Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. Nankivell (1848 - 1909) 5 min 19 Tame Butterflies by Elizabeth Brightwen 6 min 20 A Word about Golf by Charles William Taussig 6 min
