A
package from Lulu.com recently arrived containing a few books of
interest, two titles I knew I wanted – Bob Cordery’s Developing the Portable Wargame and
Dyson Logos’ 2016 Dodecahedron Cartographic Review
– and
one I discovered on a periodic search of the Lulu site (which still
doesn’t have a wishlist function or any means of more specifically
searching categories)...Damian Gareth Walker’s A Book of Historic Board Games. Frequent readers know I keep a shelf of books about games across the adventure gaming spectrum,
including those about more traditional board games like R.C.
Bell’s Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations, David
Partlett’s The Oxford History of Board Games, and Jeffrey A.
DeLuca’s comprehensive Medieval Games. Walker’s
contribution proves a worthy edition to my reference shelf and opens
the door to other resources to aid one’s exploration of more
traditional board games from throughout history. It invites readers
to discover board
games from across history and cultures, a
pursuit that
can vary our diet of adventure games.