Gaijin yokozuna : a biography of Chad Rowan /

At the age of eighteen, Chad Rowan left his home in rural Hawai'i for Tokyo with visions of becoming a star athlete in Japan's national sport, sumo. But upon his arrival he was shocked less by the city crowds and the winter cold than by having to scrub toilets and answer to fifteen-year-ol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Panek, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
Colección:Latitude 20 Bks.
Temas:
Rowan, Chad.
Wrestlers > United States > Biography.
Sumo.
Lutteurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Sumō.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
Wrestlers.
Worstelen.
United States.
Japan.
Hawaii.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A big mistake
  • Waimānalo boy
  • The first Hawaiian
  • Professional at'lete
  • The black ship
  • The list
  • The Yokozuna
  • The way of sumo
  • The promised land
  • The rest is up to them
  • The burden of the Tsuna
  • The hardness of the Dohyō
  • Gaijin
  • Proving them wrong
  • Senshūraku
  • Epilogue.

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