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| #14853592 in Books | 2008-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.76 x5.98l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 340 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fairly pedantic text from a true genius.|By Miroku Nemeth|I did my thesis for my second MA in English Lit. on Burton (over a decade ago), so, in many ways, I appreciate his writing--which is, well, very erudite, opinionated, and often pedantic in the extreme. This is not a straightforward narrative, a comprehensive text on swords or swordsmanship, or quite like anything you e|About the Author|Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the f
As the so-termed founding of Rome took place during the early Iron Age of Southern Europe, it is probable that the citizens, like their predecessors the Etruscans, originally made their blades of copper and bronze, the leaf-shape being borrowed from the Greeks, as we see it retained by the gladiators. The material would last into the Age of Steel, but even in her early years Rome must have preferred the harder metal. Pliny expressly tells us that Porsena, after his short...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Book of the Sword | Richard F. Burton. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
