Couverture / Jaquette

An ancestral trail through two English counties inhabited by everyday, church-going country folk. Great-grandmother Mary Brewer Andrew was to grow up in a sheltered Cornish village founded by a Welsh saint, but fate found her transported across the country to Suffolk, where she was to find the man of her dreams and start an idyllic family. Life was good and prosperous as a butcher's wife, the only real tragedy being in WWII with the loss of her youngest child. Yet her own childhood and ancestry tell a tale of death and hardship. Pealing back the pages of the lives of her immediate parents' family, who were agricultural labourers, is a story unto itself. Some ancestors did run successful businesses though. They were millers; but even millers can fall foul of the law, which has necessitated a detailed look into the life inside the notorious Bodmin jail. Chilling though its stories are, the place is now a museum, a skylight looking down into how things should not have been, but how history & karma affect us all.

Note biographique

Since the publication of his best selling book, "OKINAWAN KARATE, TEACHERS, STYLES & SECRET TECHNIQUES", in 1989, Mark Bishop has gone on to be arguably the leading authority on Okinawan martial arts. His other published books include the popular titles, "OKINAWAN WEAPONRY, HIDDEN METHODS, ANCIENT MYTHS of KOBUDO & TE", as well as, "OKINAWAN TE {Martial Art of Kings & Nobles} REVEALED". Mark Bishop continues to research and teach Okinawan martial arts and write on various and diverse topics - so watch this space!

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