The first popular history of The Amazons, the real warrior women of Central Asia, based on groundbreaking new research.
John Man is a historian with a special interest in Asia and the nature of leadership. His books, published in over twenty languages, include bestselling biographies of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan and Attila the Hun, as well as histories of the Great Wall of China and the Mongol Empire.
Tremendously entertaining.
*The Times*
Lively.
*Mail on Sunday*
Man, the enthusiastic historian of Asia, dissect the Amazons with
sharp scalpel. Vivid and personal.
*The Spectator*
Entertaining, fascinating, intriguing. However they are portrayed,
the Amazons appear to have enduring appeal.
*Literary Review*
The Amazonian ideal of strong, independent women, able to take on
men on equal terms, remains as fascinating to us now as it was to
the ancient Greeks.
*Daily Mail*
Ferocious female warriors known as Amazons were a recurring staple
of Greek myth, but was there any basis of truth? In this
fascinating reassessment, Man points to newly discovered
archaeological evidence.
*Mail on Sunday*
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