Arab Archery: An Arabic Manuscript of About A.D. 1500

The book itself is a classic work, interesting to archers and non-archers alike The author goes into detail about how arab archery is performed, common mistakes and myths and how correct archery should be performed. It is however, a product of it's time so the actual techniques are buried in propaganda about the superiority of arab archery and how all enemies will be crushed - but so was Roger Arkams Toxophilus just from the English perspective. There are some points the author makes which modern research have proved to be false but the overwhelming majority of the book stands the test of time.Now the negatives - and there are big ones. This is not the original work of course but a modern reproduction based on photostats of the original historic work. However the producers have done little to no proofing so every single photograph is just a black square as the copying failed. Because of this some of the main points of the book are lost and it changes a classic historical document into a waste of time and effort. Look elsewhere and try and find a better copy.

This could have been a great book but the pictures are worthless, totally unseeable. Either pictures were black or way out of focus or smudged. The text is good and very interesting reading, too bad about the pictures.

Great book. Very detailed. this was a hard to find title but glad I managed to get hold of it. Pictures are not legible in the reprints but the text is clear enough.

While having the text is useful to a student of archery, and the price seems fair, if you wish a complete copy, reproduction of the photographs is so poor they are ENTIRELY useless. It can't have been impossible have them printed correctly -even if it added a few pounds to the price. While information in most of the photos are available elsewhere, this is an unsatisfactory copy of the original.

Great book