The Traditional Bowyers Encyclopedia

by Dan Bertalan

Expert bowhunter and archery traditionalist Dan Bertalan has compiled the most complete bowmaking text available today. By traveling coast to coast and consulting America’s top bowmakers, he has gathered the best information on how to build your own recurve longbow, improve your hunting skills, care properly for a bow, and more. Including descriptive photographs, diagrams, a complete glossary of terms, and reviews of particular bows that include draw/force measurements and hand-shot arrow speeds, this illuminating book will provide hunters, collectors, and others with invaluable insight into this specialized world.

Genres: Nonfiction

576 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2007

About the author

Scientist turned filmmaker and author, Dan uses his passion for the natural world to create media that shapes perceptions of our place on the earth. Whether it's one of his thriller novels set in the raw wildness or one of his Emmy winning television shows, Dan weaves unfolding action into the process of self-discovery that empowers readers and viewers to consider how they fit in the great circle of life that entwines us all. And when he's not writing about it, Dan dives headlong into his innate thirst for outdoor adventure off the beaten path. His deep interest in history compelled him to edit and publish "Trinity Flight" the amazing true story of a young army pilot who accidentally flew through the world's first atomic blast at Alamogordo, NW in 1945. OMG!

Reviews

[LumberJack]

1st Chapter is nonsense and the size of the print is way too small for my eyes.