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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: National Archery Association of the United States in 1917 in 345 pages; Subjects: Archery; History / General; Non-Classifiable; Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation / Archery; Sports & Recreation / History; ... Read more

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Basic Essentials Archery, Uhhh, No
This seems to be an update of a previous book of the same title and two of the three authors. I bought the original version for review in the magazine I edit, Archery Focus. I bought the newer version thinking it a different book, which it is ... somewhat. Possibly the third author was added in an attempt to fix all of the mistakes in the first effort.

There is little to recommed here. Much of the photography (including the cover of the original version) is not only unhelpful but also incorrect and misleading. The same can be said for much of the technique advice.

We did not review the book in Archery Focus as we avoid negativity in its pages, but I do not want to see beginning archers wasting their money on this book. Go take a lesson from a certified coach instead. ... Read more

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Archery
This is an older, but still relevant book to learn all about archery. There are photographs and tips to go along with the wealth of information. ... Read more

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One of the original 'Storm Warning' poets, Bill Howell is now at the height of an award-winning literary career spanning four decades. These poems are rich in both wry observation and narrative playfulness. They succeed in erasing the artificial lines we draw not only between our past selves and the masks we wear in the present, but also between the constructs of our urban sanctuaries and the perceived threats of the natural world. Free of artifice and pretension, these poems strip the world bare and marvel at its difficult, enduring beauty. As the Scottish poet James W. Wood has said, 'Howell's strengths seem to lie in his understated tone, his modest, self-deprecating humour and his keen eye for nature'. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J. Buchanan in 1859 in 178 pages; Subjects: Archery; Sports & Recreation / General; Sports & Recreation / Archery; Sports & Recreation / Hunting; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Excellent book
This book is amazingly comprehensive.What I find most fascinating is the fact that archery decided many key battles even though the victorious general didn't take the value of archers seriously.Excellent insights.Every serious archer should read it. ... Read more

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Enter in the world of archery. One of ancientest sports in the world, archery is played by million around the world. In these e-book you will get the basics of archery. A resource for beginners and lovers of archery. ... Read more

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How a Legendary Medieval Weapon Became the Center of a Thriving Social Sport

"Soar is himself a bowman and a luminary of the British Longbow Society, and I dare say there is nothing worth knowing about the yew bow that he has not learnt."--Bernard Cornwell

In a tradition extending back for centuries, and eventually becoming part of English law, all boys were to be provided with a bow and two arrows at the age of six to begin archery training. When the longbow gave way to firearms in the sixteenth century, the ancient statute was relaxed. At that point, rather than disappear, the longbow began a new life as the centerpiece of recreational archery. Quickly abandoned by villagers, the longbow found itself in the hands of gentlemen who formed social clubs around the bow. These clubs and societies of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries--tightly regulated by social distinction--offered members an opportunity to meet their peers in pleasant concourse. Target and range competitions were natural events at club functions, but roving also became popular, with archers walking across vast swathes of open estate country following their arrows in golflike fashion. Initially men-only, archery clubs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries began accepting women members. It was then, as Hugh Soar relates in The Romance of Archery: A Social History of the Longbow, that the longbow literally became an arm of cupid, with recreational archery providing a setting for prospective partners to meet in a socially acceptable environment, a ritual known from the time of Jane Austen to Edith Wharton. With the participation of women, the longbow opened up another phase in its centuries-old career, with women welcome to shoot in the Olympic Games. With his characteristic blend of erudition and wit, Hugh D. H. Soar leads the reader on a fascinating journey through the latter history of the venerable longbow. ... Read more

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Fantastic
Mr Soar has written another in depth book for all those who love the longbow and it's history. This book deals quite adeptly with how the longbow was used after it's famous Medieval hey day. How it turned from a national weapon of war to a sporting weapon that also brought many people together in socially acceptable ways. This book is a must read for any longbow buff. I also recommend his other books as well. A fine author of the highest caliber. ... Read more

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Teachers and coaches need both the participant's guide and this companion teacher's guide to teach effectively. Teaching Archery: Steps to Success follows the same skill progressions as the participant's book features management safety guidelines, rating charts for identifying archers' skill levels, teaching cues to maximize learning, suggestions for identifying and correcting errors, and a complete test bank of written questions. ... Read more

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brilliant insights,lame prose style
on one page, for example, he uses "individual" several times.there are obviously many other words one could use, such as "man" or "person," but for some reason Austin prefers to be boring.

Ian Myles Slater on: On Intriguing Look at Odysseus
The bibliography of Homeric studies is almost inconceivably vast (there are acute comments by contemporaries of Socrates), and I can't claim to have read more than a small fraction of even the major works in English. However, I once made an effort to find, and read, the most famous and / or frequently cited works.

At about the same time this work first appeared, to generally excellent reviews, and I added it to my "must read" list as soon as it arrived in the UCLA library. Although I found that I disagreed with, for example, some of his views on the oral-formulaic theory of composition, the argument was well-expressed. I kept on reading. The previous reading of major critics turned out to be helpful in understanding Austin's book, which itself proved exceptionally illuminating for my next re-reading of Homer -- not always the case, unfortunately.

"Archery at the Dark of the Moon" is in part a close reading of the Odyssey, in part a sustained argument over theories of reading and interpretation. As I have suggested, it is probably not a good place for someone to start. For those with some background, in both Homeric issues and critical theory, it will be rewarding reading.

Don't ask me to sort out exactly how it changed my views of an already familiar text, not at this date. When I re-read Austin in paperback in the mid-1990s, I was surprised at how familiar it still seemed; I had assimilated that much. For me, that marks it as an extremely impressive book.

The first chapter, for example, despite my reservations, has some acute observations about the "fixed epithets" attached to Odysseus, and how their appearance is governed by more than metrical considerations. He shows that almost all of the sixty-odd uses of "polymetis" -- usually translated as something like "of many plans" -- appear when the hero is about to cajole, convince, or trick someone. He suggests that "thinking hard, he said" might be a better rendering. In any case, this hero is being described in ways more meaningful than his ships, which, as is well known, are "black" or "hollow" in accordance with the space to be filled in the line, not their appearance or cargo capacity.

On larger issues, too, such as the working of the story, Austin has much to say that is worth attention. I doubt that there will ever be a generally convincing explanation of the (rather bizarre) archery contest that forms the climax of the epic (and provides his title), but Austin is at least interesting as a critic of the story, without needing to propose unusual axe-shapes and odd modifications of the laws of physics to justify the text.

This really ought to be back in print. ... Read more