Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American?s quest to become a kung fu master at China?s legendary Shaolin Temple.
Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his... (read more)