Amazing Waves is a stunning coffee table book which captures the beauty and majesty of ocean waves. This breathtaking volume is a collection of the best recent images of the worlds top surf photographers. The photos in Amazing Waves are guaranteed to thrill surfers, longboarders, kite surfers, bodyboarders and anyone with a love of the ......
Teahupoo is a dangerous reef break at the end of the road in Tahiti, known as the most fearsome wave on earth. Over a period of ten days in 2011, the biggest storm of the year generated a swell like no other. This book, with accompanying DVD, celebrates and documents ten days that changed surfing forever, with interviews of those who rode it ......
Surfers live to travel. The quest to find perfect waves is something that grips surfers of all abilities, from novice to expert. The 2nd Edition of Surf Travel is the surf travellers bible with all the essential information at your fingertips for global surf travel. Foreword by 3 times world champion Mick Fanning. featuring the best travel ......
Next stop: Utopia. Our third edition takes a journey into
the tropical surf zone - where coral reefs fringe
impossibly exotic locales, where the sea is teeming with
life, and where the most perfect and powerful waves on
the planet are to be found. This book is guaranteed to
fire up a severe case of wanderlust among its readers.
The aim of Advanced Surf Fitness for High Performance Surfing is to help you maximise your skills. This book will help you surf longer, catch more waves and take your performance to the next level using state-of-the-art surf fitness techniques.Stepping things up from the best-selling book The Complete Guide to Surf Fitness, this book covers ......
The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuri
The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on its debt, the international financial system is ill equipped to ......
This book considers the unique perspective found in the sport of surfing for reconsidering questions in the philosophy of sport. Through the lens of surfing Brennan explores questions of ethics, aesthetics, gender equality, the nature of sport, Olympism, technology, and the good life.
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the ......
How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture
Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the ......
George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture
The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places Freeth's inspiring life story ......
James Midwinter's work isn't necessarily about the act of surfing, but the time and space around it. It seeks to suggest rather than dictate. Midwinter attempts to conjure a sense of place and evoke an individual response. The viewer is invited to submit to the scene and step away from the distractions of modern life - observe, breath in and ......
100 Classic Summit Routes to Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains
This select guide includes detailed, easy to follow directions to climbing 100 of Washington's most visible, historically significant, and interesting mountains with summits over 5,000 feet. From introductory level off-trail summit hikes and scrambles to multi-pitch alpine rock and high volcano climbs, this guide is suitable for beginning ......
This stunningly illustrated volume provides readers with a unique insight into this fascinating and increasingly popular past-time as well as expert information and advice on how to become a great surfer.Divided into three sections for easy reference, "Surfing" begins with an introduction to the origins of surfing and a guide to the equipment, ......
This practical and accessible volume is aimed at helping surfers and non-surfers alike learn and improve their skills to get the very best out of their surfing experience. "How to be a Surfer" uses case studies, first hand experiences, and high action and scenic surf photography of some of the best surfers in the world to guide readers through ......