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This outstanding paperback series examines the sports of the Olympic Games in a clear, easy-to-understand language. This series introduces families to Olympic sports, explains how and when each sport entered the modern Olympics, how each sport is played, what to watch for as a spectator, and how to get involved as a participant. Each book is suitable for all ages and neither assumes nor requires prior knowledge of athletics. ... Read more

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WOW!
i looked up archery in hopes of finding a bow & arrow but found this instead and it hit me that i need something to tell me what i was doing, and this book won! ... Read more

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This book contains everything you need to acquaint yourself with traditional archery, and gain further knowledge of the sport. Practical equipment, shooting tips, important aspects of hunting with bow-and-arrow, a treasury of great old archers, romantic philosophies of traditional archery, and much more! ... 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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A Full How To Guide To Servicing Archery Equipment. Learn Advanced ProceduresFor Properly Setting up and Tuning A Compound Bow.

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This straight-forward, comprehensive book covers the history, skills, rules, professional organizations and competitions, and equipment used in archery. The content is designed to teach the fundamentals to beginning archery students of any age and enhance the skills of experienced archers. ... Read more

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Good Comprehensive text book
This is a comprehensive text book covering the history, equipment, and skills of archery. It also includes information on target and field sports as well as hunting and physical conditioning. One complaint is that it reads like a college text book and the pictures are black and white. I had hoped for more and bigger pictures illustrating techniques. This book is for adults. Kids will be bored with it. It is extremely detailed, but sometimes hard to read with sentences like "The remaining three fingers are placed or 'hooked' on the bowstring at or slightly past the first or distal interphalangeal joints of your fingers." Overall you can't complain about a lack of information. You just might wish it were faster and lighter reading.

Book Review of Archery
The book Archery is an excellent book for all levels of archers.It has a large variety of step-by-step photographs emphasizing the key skills of the sport.It also covers the equipment, techniques, and rules for all kinds of types of archery competition rounds.Practice drills are shown step-by-step to help one learn quickly.It has many special sections on different types of bows and bow hunting.Archery covers the basic and advanced skills, allowing you to master the techniques at the speed you see fit.Many pictures and diagrams help explain the material and its procedures. ... Read more

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Target Archery is the ultimate history of American archery from the earliest days through the 1940s. With 84 illustrations, it provides a detailed account of everything from bowwoods to bows and the development of steel bows. ... Read more

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The most comprehensive book on all levels of archery!
This book is the best book on archery I have ever read! I first found this book in a local library. I'm trying to find a copy of this book (Preferably Brand New), unfortunately it is out of print. Fred Bear, as many know, isthe best bowyer who has lived. It is veerrryyyy long and explains,step-by-step, all techniques from beginer to advanced. If I could only haveone archery book. This is it!

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