Comprehensive Asian fighting arts cover

Comprehensive Asian fighting arts

by Donn F. Draeger

This is a history of Asian fighting arts with lots of pictures from Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, China, Russia, India and Burma. The authors were Americans who had a deep interest in Martial Arts and collaborated on this fabulous book. I remember first discovering it in the library at about 12 years old. It was in the reference section, which always featured some really amazing Martial Arts tomes.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?