A concise yet comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate, with biographies of the great karate mastersThis concise-yet-comprehensive history of traditional Okinawan and Japanese karate includes authoritative biographies of the great karate masters of the past and the philosophical issues they faced as karate changed and evolved. Bringing a fresh understanding to the study of the martial arts, Mark I. Cramer dispels many of the often-repeated ...

Mark Cramer has not owned a car since 1995. In 2022, at 77 and just out of double hernia surgery, he set out to prove that this was liberation and not sacrifice.Over 39 bicycle day trips from his apartment just north of Paris, Cramer pedaled 1,062 kilometers through forests, river towpaths, and French towns using Thoreau's essay "Walking" as his method. No smartphone. No GPS. Paper maps only. For photographs, he depended on strangers willing to stop. For directions, he depended on ...