The gladiator assuming he survived for a time usually lived a short but momentous life, full of the prospect of honor, fame, and the adoration of female fans. The book is tailormade for anyone who got the video of gladiator for christmas and wants to know more about how the romans staged their bouts of combat to the death. The gladiator by alan baker penguin books australia. Alan baker has 12 books on goodreads with 959 ratings. With each breathtaking scene, the complex culture of world that created and adored these bloody games between man and beast comes into clear focus. The gladiator is a readable and sometimes melodramatic account of the gladiatorial games of ancient rome.
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If there is a certain colorlessness to bakers writing, it nonetheless offers gobbets of hard information and stories to. In addition, alan created the popular and successful little rabbits series, which has sold over halfamillion copies in the u. Whether their enemy was a starved tiger or a battlehardened criminal. Alan is a lecturer in illustration at the university of brighton, england.
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The secret history of romes warrior slaves by alan baker hardback, 2000 at. The past is another country, they do things differently there. They were condemned and feared by emperors, slaughtered and adored by the masses and worshipped by their female fans, yet their lives were invariably violently short. In his trim, formal voice, baker explains that the first gladiatorial fights started in 264 b. The secret history of romes warrior slaves by baker, alan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Alan baker mathematician 19392018, english mathematician alan baker footballer born 1944, footballer for aston villa football club, 196066 alan baker diplomat born 1947, former israel ambassador to canada. The story concerns a scientist who invents an alkaline freeradical serum to improve humankind by granting the proportionate strength of an ant and the leaping ability of the grasshopper.
Attempting to cover the entire history of the horseback fighter from the late dark ages to the renaissance, alan baker the gladiator. Into these frays rode the knight upon his battle horse, and baker the gladiator, 2001 tells his readers how such nearmythic beings were groomed and ordained and what vows they took in military service to the liege lord. The secret history of romes warrior slaves alan baker, author. Author alan baker takes a look at whats been called historys most violent game. Alan baker has always had a fascination with mysteries and the paranormal, and has spent more than 20 years researching them.
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