Blood-Lust Chickens and Renegade Sheep: A First Timer's Guide to Country Living

by Nick Evangelista

Blood-Lust Chickens and Renegade A First-Timer's Guide to Country Living. A classic must read for those interested in food and farming.

169 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

With over 36 years of fencing experience under his belt, fencing master Nick Evangelista is one of the sport's most unique teachers. He has studied fencing in both the United States and Europe and has also collected a number of awards and medals during his years of competition. Over the past three decades, he has developed many fencers who have successfully competed in the United States fencing community. Maestro Evangelista teaches the traditional French school of fencing, sometimes referred to as "classical," and encourages his students and readers to consider in their actions and strategies, among other things, the question, "What if these weapons were sharp?"

Maestro Evangelista’s formative years as a fencer were spent under the guidance of one of the acknowledged great masters of the twentieth century, Ralph Faulkner, a former Olympian known as "The Fencing Master to the Stars" for his work with several famous Hollywood swashbucklers.

Nick Evangelista has many published articles to his credit. He currently has five fencing-related books: The Encyclopedia of the Sword, The Art and Science of Fencing , Fighting with Sticks, The Inner Game of Fencing, and The Woman Fencer. His work has also been quoted in numerous publications, including Smithsonian Magazine. He has acted as a consultant to the film industry, adding his talent to TV shows including: Magnum P.I. and The Highlander. As the fencing history editor for Encyclopedia Britannica Online, he updated their fencing information for the twenty-first century. Maestro Evangelista is also the editor/publisher of Fencers Quarterly Magazine, the only independent hard-copy fencing magazine in the world.

[Photograph and biography excerpted from The Nick Evangelista Homepage]

Reviews

[Bonnie Roman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. No one tells you the down sides (especially with such humor!). great read!

[Nicoal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical, realistic, and to-the-point advice. Maybe a little out of date, but useful all the same, to those of us who like to romanticize country life.