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Offline Alaric

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Book Recommendations
« on: June 22, 2012, 04:35:39 pm »
I am looking for suggestions for archery related books to add to my library. I am primarily interested in books on making bows, bow design, archery history, documentation of historic bows and things like that covering bows from anywhere and any time.  I don’t have much interest in books about hunting with bows.

My current archery library contains the following:

A Bibliography of Archery  (Legends of the Longbow)   By Lake and Wright
A Study of Bows and Arrows  (Legends of the Longbow)   By Saxton Pope
American Archery  (Legends of the Longbow)   By Robert Elmer
American Indian Archery   By Reginald & Gladys Laubin
Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By Longman and Walrond
Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By Robert Elmer
Archery tackle: how to make and how to use it   By Adolph Shane
Archery, its Theory and Practice (Legends of the Longbow)   By Horace Ford
Archery, the Technical Side (Legends of the Longbow)   By Hickman,  Nagler and Klopsteg
Arrowheads & Projectile Points   By Lar Hothem
Book of the Longbow (Legends of the Longbow)   By Robert Elmer
Bows and Arrows of the Native Americans   By Jim Hamm
Fred Bear's Field Notes (Legends of the Longbow)   By Fred Bear
Hunting the Hard Way (Legends of the Longbow)   By Howard Hill
Hunting With the Bow and Arrow (Legends of the Longbow)   By Saxton Pope
Ishi and Elvis   By Jim Hamm
Ishi in Two Worlds (Legends of the Longbow)   By Kroeber
Longbow: A Social and Military History   By Robert Hardy
Modern Methods in Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By Reichart and Keasy
Sagittarius (Legends of the Longbow)   By Bob Swinehart
Secrets of the English War Bow    By Hugh Soar
Target Archery:  With a History of the Sport in America (Legends of the Longbow)   By Robert Elmer
The Adventurous Bowmen (Legends of the Longbow)   By Saxton Pope
The Archers Craft (Legends of the Longbow)   By Adrian Hodgkin
The Bent Stick   By Paul Comstock
The Book of Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By George Hansard
The Complete Book of the Bow and Arrow (Legends of the Longbow)   By Howard Gillelan
The Crooked Stick - A History of the Longbow   By Hugh Soar
The Crossbow   By Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey
The Double-Armed Man   By William Neade, archer
The English Bowman   By Thomas Roberts
The Grey Goose Wing (Legends of the Longbow)   By E.G. Heath
The Medieval Archer   By Jim Bradbury
The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible Series - Volume 1   
The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible Series - Volume 2   
The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible Series - Volume 3   
The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible Series - Volume 4   
The Witchery of Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By Maurice Thompson
Toxophilus  (Legends of the Longbow)   By Roger Ascham
Turkish Archery (Legends of the Longbow)   By Paul Klopsteg
Wild Adventure (Legends of the Longbow)   By Howard Hill
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. I   (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. II (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. III (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. IV (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. V (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. VI (Legends of the Longbow)
Ye Sylvan Archer,  Vol. VII (Legends of the Longbow)



Richard

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Book Recommendations
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2012, 05:34:09 pm »
Hunting the Osage Bow, Dean Torges

Is a good instructional book on building an osage bow.  It is very well written.
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Book Recommendations
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2012, 05:50:07 pm »
Hit the Mark by P Comstock.

Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: Book Recommendations
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2012, 08:26:45 pm »
You have some fine books !
A couple that come to mind
 Bows of the world -David Gray
The art of making bows and arrows -D.C, Waldorf
Making Indian bows the old way -Douglas Spotted Eagle


Sorry my mind just went blank
Guy
Guy Dasher
The Marshall Primitive Archery Rendezvous
Primitive Archery Society
Having  fun
To God be the glory !

Offline Adam

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Re: Book Recommendations
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2012, 11:08:33 pm »
I enjoyed Bows and Arrows by James Duff, which was written in 1927.  I have no idea if it's easy to find.  My great-grandfather had it.

Offline Alaric

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Re: Book Recommendations
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2012, 08:14:19 am »
I welcome both readily available and rare book suggestions, keep them coming.

Richard