Author: Gerard Thibault d'Anvers
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658903
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today.
The Academy of the Sword
Author: Gerard Thibault d'Anvers
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658903
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today.
Publisher: Aeon Books
ISBN: 1904658903
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The most detailed and comprehensive treatise on swordsmanship ever written, Gerard Thibault's Academy of the Sword offers an extraordinary glimpse into a forgotten landscape of ideas, in which Pythagorean sacred geometry illuminated the lethal realities of rapier combat to create one of the Western world's only thoroughly documented esoteric martial arts. Translated by the widely respected occultist and scholar John Michael Greer, this stunningly illustrated and precisely detailed manual of Renaissance swordsmanship is a triumphant document of Renaissance culture-as well as a practical manual of a martial art that can still be studied and practiced today.
The Espérance Morris Book: Morris dances, country dances, sword dances and sea shanties. Notes and steps written by C. Carey; music collected and arranged by G. Toye and C. Carey
Author: Mary Neal
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Category : Folk songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
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Category : Folk songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Circle's End
Author: Lisanne Norman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756408555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The ninth and final book in Lisanne Norman's thrilling long-running science fiction series, Sholan Alliance, a saga of alien contact and interspecies conflict It’s been a long journey, taking Kusac Aldatan, his family, and allies over countless light-years and to numerous planets and space stations. Finally it is the time for Kusac and his allies to deal with the threat of the warrior Valtegans on their world of M’zull. Will he work to rehabilitate them using tools given him by the Touiban scientists, or will his calling as the Avatar of Justice take over and destroy all of his foes? Isolated on M’zull, Kusac—with his clan of Sholans and Humans—works to destabilize the Valtegan society, posing as the avenging spirit of the long-dead, legendary hero Zsadhi. Is it a ruse to fool the M’zullians, or is Kusac becoming more and more like the first Valtegan king with every passing day? If so, can he escape that destiny and chart his own course? His mission will take Kusac and his clan into mortal danger. Even his young son Shaidan, supposedly safe on a far-distant world, has, unbeknownst to his father, become bound up in the whole plan to destroy the martial spirit of the M’zullians. Can Kusac navigate these dangerous waters and bring all of his family safely home while at the same time ending the M’zullian threat forever? Or will the price of victory prove too great even for the Avatar of Justice?
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756408555
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The ninth and final book in Lisanne Norman's thrilling long-running science fiction series, Sholan Alliance, a saga of alien contact and interspecies conflict It’s been a long journey, taking Kusac Aldatan, his family, and allies over countless light-years and to numerous planets and space stations. Finally it is the time for Kusac and his allies to deal with the threat of the warrior Valtegans on their world of M’zull. Will he work to rehabilitate them using tools given him by the Touiban scientists, or will his calling as the Avatar of Justice take over and destroy all of his foes? Isolated on M’zull, Kusac—with his clan of Sholans and Humans—works to destabilize the Valtegan society, posing as the avenging spirit of the long-dead, legendary hero Zsadhi. Is it a ruse to fool the M’zullians, or is Kusac becoming more and more like the first Valtegan king with every passing day? If so, can he escape that destiny and chart his own course? His mission will take Kusac and his clan into mortal danger. Even his young son Shaidan, supposedly safe on a far-distant world, has, unbeknownst to his father, become bound up in the whole plan to destroy the martial spirit of the M’zullians. Can Kusac navigate these dangerous waters and bring all of his family safely home while at the same time ending the M’zullian threat forever? Or will the price of victory prove too great even for the Avatar of Justice?
The Scylla Hexagram
Author: Paul Riva
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595755593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
As the full moon shines on a sacred Himalayan cliff, Kym Blaze falls into a raging white water river and escapes from a hooded killer who plunged after her. Eighteen years later, a global Secret Service assigns Kym, now an attractive botanist and Special Ops agent, to identify the same hooded killer, known as the Unicorn, whose name has reappeared in the Hong Kong underworld. To find the Unicorn, she must track a star trader called Obermeyer, recently freed from jail by Unicorn henchmen. Kym only has six days to stop the Unicorn from achieving global hegemony, but her emotional demons surface unexpectedly and threaten her survival. Torn between her mission and her past, she must unravel the deadly maze of the Scylla hexagram in order to stay alive and face the dark shadow of her deepest fear.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595755593
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
As the full moon shines on a sacred Himalayan cliff, Kym Blaze falls into a raging white water river and escapes from a hooded killer who plunged after her. Eighteen years later, a global Secret Service assigns Kym, now an attractive botanist and Special Ops agent, to identify the same hooded killer, known as the Unicorn, whose name has reappeared in the Hong Kong underworld. To find the Unicorn, she must track a star trader called Obermeyer, recently freed from jail by Unicorn henchmen. Kym only has six days to stop the Unicorn from achieving global hegemony, but her emotional demons surface unexpectedly and threaten her survival. Torn between her mission and her past, she must unravel the deadly maze of the Scylla hexagram in order to stay alive and face the dark shadow of her deepest fear.
The Mediaeval Stage
Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Waverly Novels
Author: Scott
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Mediaeval Stage: book III. Religious drama ;. book IV. The interlude ; Appendices
Author: Edmund Kerchever Chambers
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Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.
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Category : Drama, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
From the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.
The Waverley Novels
Author: Walter Scott
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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The Pirate
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : Orkney (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Category : Orkney (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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The Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: The pirate
Author: Walter Scott
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description