Book Specs for the South African Edition

Book Title - My Karate Odyssey

Book’s subtitle - A Six Month Journey across North & Central America with my dogi, backpack & laptop as travelling companions

Author - Hoosain Narker

Number of pages - 240 (Last Page Blank)

Paper - Hi-Q Titan Plus Gloss, 90 g/m² (24lb)

Binding - Perfect binding -

Cover - Supreme Art Board, 295 g/m² white full colour gloss laminated OFC

Book Size - 245 x 168 mm (9.5 x 6.5 approx)

Colour Pages - 16 pages full colour

Subject matter - Non Fiction

Grade Level - All Ages

Brief book description -
My Karate Odyssey is South African karate instructor Hoosain Narker’s six months journey across North & Central America with his karate suit, backpack & laptop as traveling companions.

The First Edition of this book published by

Trafford Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4251-6876-6 (Canada)

This Edition published by

Shugyosha Publications

5 Fauna Road, Steenberg, 7945, South Africa

E-mail: info@shugyosha.org

© Copyright 2008 Hoosain Narker

All rights reserved

ISBN: 978-0-620-42769-2 (South Africa)

EAN : 9780620427692

CONTENTS
(240 pages including 15 pages of Sabaki technique)

Acknowledgements                                                      
Map       
Contents                                  
Foreword                    
Introduction                  

Part 1 - My Travels    
Chapter 1  - About the Author & Training under Apartheid
Chapter 2  - The Beginning/Determination   
Chapter 3  - In the Midwest        
Chapter 4  - The North East        
Chapter 5  - Going West    
Chapter 6  - In the North West   
Chapter 7  - Motivation      
Chapter 8  - Back in California    
Chapter 9  - Canada and Back     
Chapter 10 - Be Positive          
Chapter 11 - Nebraska and Cheyenne  
Chapter 12 - California & the Northwest Corridor  
Chapter 13 - From Arizona to the Statue of Liberty
Chapter 14 - In Central America   
Chapter 15 - Back to Florida & Points further 
Chapter 16 - To New York & Home       
Chapter 17 - Conclusion             
Chapter 18 - The value of Martial Arts training in the 21^st Century

Part 2 - Profiles                
Gary Alexander, Sara Aoyama   
Lance Richard Barnes      
Zenón Cortéz Becker, Ken Bladyka    
Peter Brown Terry Bryan, Frederick S. Buck  
Antonio Bustillo, Christopher Caile   
Fabián Merino Calvo     
Tom Carmelengo      
Ken Charlton, Daniel E. Cohen   
Mark Cramer, Glenn E. Cunningham    
Chris de Wet, George Donahue    
Patrick Damian Donahue    
Gary Gabelhouse, Charles David Garrett II   
Larry Giordano, Sunit Kumar Gupta   
Michael D. Harriman, Randy Bernard Haskins  
Dr. Zaahir Hendricks      
Jim Hoffer, Paul M. Hucul     
Douglas Jepperson, Bruce Juchnik    
Vasilios Katsaitis, Noriyasu Kudo   
Dr Duk Gun Kwon, William John Le Compte 
John Frederick Lehner, Brian D. Lerner, Bill Lucas  
Scott Maczuga, Joanne Madrid    
Anthony Cesar Marquez, Sr.    
J. Antonio Martinez     
Anthony Masucci     
Yousuf Mazhar, Rob McFarland, Illona McKinzie 
Cathy Melanson, Kenneth Miarecki    
Rigoberto Meloy Mow, Vassie Naidoo  
Todd Newton, Myra J.W. Noss   
Reed F. Noss, John S. O'Hara    
Robert Lee Perry      
Martin R. Petrovich, Henry "Hank" Prohm, Tony Rosa
John S. Roseberry, Bradley Ryan   
Eddy Schumacher, John Sells   
Dan Soller      
Tom Swiss, Paul Thoresen    
Desmond Tuck      
Carlos S. Velez II, Kimo Wall   
Chris Walton, Tim Watkins     
Cornell Watson, Brad Webb   
H. Johnpaul Williams      
Steve Wilson, David D. Wong, Brian Wright   
George Yanase     

Part 3 - Technical                    
Street Fight Karate     
What is Sabaki?     
This is Sabaki                                                        

Glossary                
Suggested Reading                 
Bibliography
South African Web Sites of Interest                   
Ashihara Karate Products            

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