The Book of the Sword

The Book of the Sword"The history of the sword is the history of humanity." With these words, British author, Victorian scholar, and world traveler Richard Burton begins his eloquent and exceptionally erudite history of the "Queen of Weapons." Spanning the centuries and a wide range of cultures, Burton's rich and elegant prose illuminates the sword as both armament and potent symbol. For nearly all peoples of the world, the sword embodied the spirit of chivalry,

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and the organization of one's life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber

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the author was motivated to relieve his distress over the faulty conclusions drawn from the frequent misuse of relatively simple statistical tools such as percents

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sixteen-year-old Tom Wade leaves England in 1860 and sets out for the untamed wilderness of the American Far West

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is so admirably adapted to the objects of reality

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