{"product_id":"amazons-9780552173285","title":"Amazons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archery skills and routinely killed their male children to purify their ranks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor centuries people believed in their existence and attempted to trace their origins. Artists and poets celebrated their battles and wrote of Amazonia. Spanish explorers, carrying these tales to South America, thought they lived in the forests of the world's greatest river, and named it after them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the absence of evidence, we eventually reasoned away their existence, concluding that these powerful, sexually liberated female soldiers must have been the fantastical invention of Greek myth and storytelling. Until now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing decades of new research and a series of groundbreaking archeological discoveries, we now know these powerful warrior q\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTremendously entertaining. -- Catherine Nixey * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eLively. -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eMan, the enthusiastic historian of Asia, dissect the Amazons with sharp scalpel. Vivid and personal. * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eEntertaining, fascinating, intriguing. However they are portrayed, the Amazons appear to have enduring appeal. -- Philip Womack * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. -- Jane Shilling * Daily Mail *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735140217175,"sku":"9780552173285","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552173285.jpg?v=1723810041","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amazons-9780552173285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}