By the sword : gladiators, musketeers, Samurai warriors, swashbucklers, and olympians
Cohen, Richard, 1947-2003
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Above all this book portrays the character of fencing - at once graceful, balletic, rough, technically beautiful and fiercely competitive. Richard Cohen traces these subtleties, the passions that it arouses in its players and explains his personal devotion to this ancient art.
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London : Pan, 2003.
Collation:
xxiv, 519 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 20 cm.
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Originally published: New York: Random House; London: Macmillan, 2002.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780330482295 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.8609
Local class:
796.8609
Language:
English
BRN:
210323
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