AFRICAN ARMS & ARMOR

AFRICAN ARMS & ARMOR
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Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105006028778
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Download or read book AFRICAN ARMS & ARMOR written by SPRING CHRISTOPHER and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1993-10-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using eyewitness accounts of travelers and missionaries to Africa, the oral history of Africans, and the visual evidence of the weapons themselves, Spring builds a comprehensive cultural and ethnographic survey of traditional arms and armor from several centuries ago to the present.


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