The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World

5 best books like The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World (Adrienne Mayor): The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, Deathstalker, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, Harem: The World Behind the Veil, Dororo

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Author	Kara Cooney
ISBN	0307956768

An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.

Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was...

Deathstalker

Author	Simon R. Green
ISBN	0575601604

The Iron Bitch-- her Imperial Majesty Lionstone XIV-- ruled the human Empire with fear. From peasants to masters of the galaxy's most powerful families, all were subject to the queen's unpredictable decrees of "outlawing" and death.

Owen Deathstalker, unwilling head of his clan, sought...

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt

Author	Kara Cooney
ISBN	1426219776

This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.

Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...

Harem: The World Behind the Veil

Author	Alev Lytle Croutier
ISBN	1558591591

I've been meaning to read this book for quite some time now as the idea of the harem has always set my imagination on fire.

Harem: The World Behind the Veil sets out to tell us the truth about The Great Harem and harems in general from the time of the ottoman sultans to the present.

We are told...

Dororo

Author	Osamu Tezuka
ISBN	1935654322

In a time of constant warfare, a samurai lord barters away his newborn son's organs in exchange for victory on the battlefield. Yet the abandoned infant survives, saved by a skilled medicine man who trains him into a formidable warrior. Equipped with lethal prosthesis, Hyakkimaru will have to hunt...