Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Bell R. C.Paperback
Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Bell R. C.Paperback There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. Bell is…
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Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations Bell R. C.Paperback
There are many authoritative books on card games and chess, but only a handful on the dozens of other games known to mankind. Bell is a basic reference to board and table games from around the world, and one of the two or three finest books ever written on the subject. This excellent handbook by R. C.
Bell's encyclopedic work provides the rules and methods of play for 182 different games: Ma-jong, Hazard, Wei-ch'I (Go), backgammon, Wari, Continental draughts, Pachisi, Japanese chess, Bidou, Domino Loo, Cribbage, and many others. Originally published in two volumes in the 1960's, it is now available for the first time in a corrected, one-volume edition.Mr. Volume one is divided into chapters devoted to race games, war games, games of position, Mancala games, dice games, and domino games; volume two follows the same arrangement and then proceeds to games with numbers, card games