Curwood and May: The Worlds They Wrote
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Ishi The Last of The Yashi…
It’s a strange thing, to draw a bow and feel the pull of something older than time itself—a quiet understanding between hand, string, and arrow. I think about that often, about how archery is less about hitting a target than…
The Archer’s Guide to the Unspoken Essentials
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Andrew’s 20 Questions #27 John Playdon
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Click, Stabilize, Obey: The Rise of the Machine-Archer
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Blackbird Column
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The Arrows That Sang Against Steel: The Spanish Conquest and the Vanishing Echo of Indigenous Archery
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A Window and a Mirror
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DWild Sinusoid Limbs
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Archers Talkin’ Archery – Leeanne Halliday
More quick interviews with archers here in the north and elsewhere. Archers Talkin' Archery is back!
A Bow Drawn Against the Wind – Akira Kurosawa and his vision of men
Stories are not told. They are loosed, like arrows from a drawn bow, their fletching kissed by breath, their paths uncertain yet inevitable. A storyteller does not own the tale—he only pulls the string, lets it fly, watches it carve…
The Fever That Dwells in Men
Have you heard of a madness that does not burn with fire but seeps like a disease, making bones feverish and bending the mind to its will? It does not speak, it does not sing, it does not threaten, but…
Erased by Fire and Time
The first thing they saw was the light. It came from the sea, from beyond the edges of the world they had known, a gleam upon the water like the sun’s fractured reflection. Then the ships, too vast to be…
Vengeance Wears a Mask
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The Shadow of Arrows: Thomas de Montagu and the Longbowmen of the Hundred Years’ War.
At times, especially within historical investigations, things become fleeting and elusive. The past ceases to be a fragile record and becomes the superficial memory of a chronicler. However, there are moments when it stirs, gathering a strange, electric energy, and…
From Ancient Bows to Soviet Arrows: Archery in Russian and Soviet Literature
I grew up amongst books, although never knowing for sure whether it was a blessing or a burden. In those days, you didn’t choose what you read. You took what was given, what was printed, what had survived the censors,…
Mercy
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The Forgotten Legacy of French Archery
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Robin Hood Shoot
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a whisper in the dark
You think you understand violence. You think you’ve seen it, measured it, weighed it in your hands like something you could master, something that bends to the will of the wielder. You think a weapon is just a tool. But…