Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

by John Man

Book Overview

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. Artists and poets celebrated their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681776758
• ISBN13: 9781681776750
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"