| #472390 in Books | 1999-06-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x1.20 x5.70l, | File Name: 0192129988 | 400 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Daniel|a must have!|4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Chase, displace, space, race games-- and themes!|By John L Murphy|I learned last week that my personality type seeks out pursuits not for competition or reward, but for the pleasure of the pastime. I get absorbed, as many readers of Parlett ma|From Library Journal|This book by Parlett (A Dictionary of Card Games, Oxford Univ., 1992) is a superb work that succeeds in defining board games from their ancient inception to the present day. The most basic games were of a race nature (from point A to point
For thousands of years, people have been planning attacks, captures, chases, and conquests--in short, they've been playing board games. Now, in The Oxford History of Board Games, David Parlett investigates the myriad board games that have developed through the ages and around the world. Here are the origins and development of our favorite games, from the Egyptian and Asian ancestors of Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon, to the invention of such modern c...
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