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Amazons: the Real Warrior Women Of the ancient World
[Paperback - 2018]
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Category: History
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Publisher: Corgi Uk | ISBN: 9780552173285 | Pages: 320
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks. For centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Following decades of new research and a series of archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior queens did indeed exist. In Amazons, John Man travels to the grasslands of Central Asia, from the edge of the ancient Greek world to the borderlands of China, to discover the truth about the warrior women mythologized as Amazons. In this well-researched book, Man redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today.

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John Anthony Garnet Man is a British historian and travel writer. His special interests are China, Mongolia and the history of written communication.

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