Shimmering Sword
Subtitle: Samurai, Western, and Star Wars Sword Fighting
Publisher: NBK Pub
Published: May 2002
Place of publication: Montgomery Village, MD
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780971879607
Subjects: Fencing; History; Sports & Recreation; Star wars (Motion picture); Swordplay; Samurai
First sentence: When Star Wars made its debut in 1977, George Lucas created an epic which did something that no film or book had successfully done.
Table of contents: pagenum: ix
title: Preface; pagenum: 2
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title: Jedi Univers: Jedi and the Swordsman's Point of View; pagenum: 19
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title: Sword Culture: Understanding Fear; pagenum: 43
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title: Nature of the Sword: How the Sword Works; pagenum: 85
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title: Sword Style: Movement for Victory; pagenum: 132
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title: Jedi Precedents; pagenum: 162
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title: Master, Padawan, Apprentice: The Education of an Apprentice; pagenum: 208
label: 7
title: The Sword Fight in Star Wars: The Lightsaber in Action; pagenum: 247
title: Afterward; pagenum: 250
title: Glossary; pagenum: 255
title: Select Bibliography; pagenum: 260
title: Index