Hello, I've just started a new YAHOO-Group "Western and Adventure" here in Germany. The main language ist German, but messages in English are welcome. Please...
An interesting combination for a group. I know this is neither the time nor the place but I suppose the European western probably owes much more in terms of...
Hi, thanks for your mail. We have in WESTERN and ADVENTURE after only six days fourteen members, a few from the states and the most from Germany. The...
Welcome, Bellar10n! I never cease to be amazed at how knowledgeable the members of this group are, and one or more may have contacted you off-list by now -- ...
A writer-friend of mine has asked me for some recommendations of books on fencing and sword fighting. I think some of our members are knowledgeable in the...
Wow...I haven't fenced since university, and even though I was on the team, I can't remember a single book on the topic. (Old age has completely parked itself...
Richard Cohen's By the Sword : A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions is good. Sword Fighting: A Manual for Actors...
... Here's a link: http://www.latourdulac.com/fencing/patri.html This is a list of reprints of historical fencing manuals which are (used to be) available. The...
... Additional thought on the subject of Renaissance swordplay. In my first note, I recommended George Silver as a source for practical swordsmanship. It ...
Very unexpectedly Sony are releasing both Louis Hayward Captain Blood movies on June 27th as part of MGMs Midnite Movies series. The two movies will be...
Hi Everyone, I'm introducing myself! I'm Jim Adams and I just joined this group. I saw the fantastic Sabatini website and I followed the link to this group,...
They have a four-minute trailer at the site Jim Adams gave, and I can say, first, that the music is absolutely marvelous, and, second, they are not playing it...
Crippen & Landru has published a new book of Sabatini Mystery Stories. The book is titled "The Evidence of the Sword". For those of you who don't know...
I thought the group might find this announcement from www.colonialradio.com (Colonial Radio Theater) to be of interest. As you can see, with a six-CD set it...
Well, it actually isn't just of Sabatini . . . but for all you compleatists out there, Dilip Sarkar has written a book titled "Spitfire! Courage & Sacrifice"....
Since we've had several new members join the group recently, I thought it might be an excellent time to list the various Sabatini books that have come up in...
I've been trying to find the 3rd series of HISTORICAL NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT. ABE lists dozens of the first two, but none of this one. Can anyone give me a lead?...
... Well, I can tell you that it's real; I have a reading copy in my shelf, but if ABE doesn't list it then I think you're best off just continuing to look for...
... Since these are his seminal works, you can start with any of them. If you like pirate stories, Captain Blood is the best one ever. Scaramouche is a...
dsalley, I pretty much agree with Lee. While Sabatini wrote a lot of terrific stuff, I don't think he wrote anything *better* than "Scaramouche" or "Captain...
Lee, The pirate stories sound wonderful. I'll bid on them and "Scaramouche" this week. Yes, I have been getting all of the recent volumes in the current REH ...
... I was going to write pretty much exactly the same thing. I had a hard time fuly getting in to The Sea Hawk, so would not put it on a what to start with ...
Doris, I'd be interested in a couple of things. First, after you've read a bit of Sabatini, do you see any similarities with REH? Second, I'd be interested in...
... As a fellow Howard fan, he wrote numerous short stories and novelettes about Europeans in the Moslem world...very much like The Sea Hawk. (I recall at ...
Jesse, I promise to report back as soon as I have read my first Sabattini. Reading REH as a child until the adult that I am now (my husband still thinks I'm...
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