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Secondhand book for sale

Alfred W. Crosby.
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 2002.
ISBN 0521791588;
ISBN-13: 9780521791588.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 156x233x18mm.
Page count: xii,206pp inc. 16 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: the dustjacket on this copy has some mild scuffs, a little ruffled with a small rip on the edges and corners; spine slightly skewed; in other respects doesn’t look heavily used.

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This item £8.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £26.00]
Weight without packaging: 468g.

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Chronologically wide-ranging, but includes some medieval material.

Contents: Pliocene — something new afoot; Pliocene & pleistocene — "you are what you throw"; Pleistocene & Holocene — "cooking the earth"; Upper Paleolithic — "humans & other catastrophes"; From weapon craftsmanship to weapon technology; The Chinese elixir; Gunpowder as a centripetal force; Brown Bess to Big Bertha; The V2 & the Bomb; The longest throws.

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