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American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
Category: Biography Memoir
Matthew Polly was your typical 98-pound weakling with sand kicked in his face - until he decided to learn to kick back. Dropping out of university, he travelled to China to study at the granddaddy of all Chinese martial arts monasteries: the Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of both Zen Buddhism and kungfu ...Show more
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Category: Biography
"The first noteworthy treatment of its subject--and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate." --The New York Times Book Review The most authoritative biography--featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs--of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomen ...Show more
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly
Category: Film & Tv | Series: The Elizabeth Cage series
"The first noteworthy treatment of its subject--and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate" (The New York Times Book Review). The most authoritative biography--featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs--of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon ...Show more
Tapped Out: Rear Naked Chokes, the Octagon and the Last Emperor: An Odyssey in Mixed Martial Arts by Matthew Polly
Category: Sports and Hobbies
When he was younger, Matthew Polly travelled to the Shaolin Temple in China and spent two years training with the order of monks who had invented the ancient art of kung fu. Fifteen years later, his weakness for Chinese takeout and Jack Daniel's had taken its toll. Now firmly into middle age and far rem ...Show more
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