Alex Wade

Amazing Surfing Stories

Tales of Incredible Waves & Remarkable Riders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An eclectic mix of exciting stories every surfer will love
This eclectic mix has something for everyone, from classic tales of monster waves and epic battles to stories of when life among the breakers goes wrong. There are accounts of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph. The bizarre and the extreme rub shoulders with perfect breaks and beautiful beaches.
Be thrilled by legendary surfers like Laird Hamilton and Shane Dorian as well as learning about local heroes who never made the headlines. Epic battles among pros like Rob Machado and Kelly Slater are recounted alongside stories of weird waves and secret surf spots. There are fascinating encounters with surfing's true characters, men like Dave Rastovich and big wave world record holder Garrett McNamara; appearances by deadly sharks; stories of big wave surfing by night; and an account of how Agatha Christie's famous disappearance for 11 days in December 1926 might just have been because she was on a surf trip.
Travel from giants like California's Maverick's and Maui's Jaws to tales of Dungeons, dolphins and the derring-do of a man like Colonel 'Mad Jack' Churchill. Turn the pages to flick between the left and rights of Britain, Europe, USA, Australia and many strange places in between.
Each compelling tale has been chosen to stoke the fire of armchair surfers and hardcore wave-riders alike, and some are illustrated with colour photographs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781119942542
• ISBN-10: 1119942543
• Artikelnr.: 35578622

Autorenporträt

ALEX WADE is a former white-collar boxer, media lawyer and freelance journalist who lives and surfs in Cornwall. As well as running the "Surf Nation" blog, he regularly contributes to "The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian" and other national newspapers. He covers diverse areas as a freelance journalist and has written columns for "The Independent on Sunday, " timesonline.co.uk and "Flush" magazine on boxing, legal life and poker. Alex has travelled the globe extensively. He has written about New York, Albania and Kazakhstan; Barbados, Ireland and Andalucia; Captain Cook country, Mexico and Francis Ford Coppola's retreats in Belize and Guatemala. Despite a restless life he thinks he's found paradise in West Penwith, Cornwall, where he lives with his wife Karen, an accomplished abstract artist, and their two sons.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi Part One Going to Extremes Child's Play? Definitely Not 3 Hold
Down 7 Surviving the Atom Blaster 12 Oh My God (Take 1) 18 Size Matters 23
Part Two Tragic Tales In Memory of Andy Irons 31 Veitch: RIP 36 QED 40 The
Peterson Problem 44 Part Three When the Big Stuff Bites A Bite out of Burle
51 People in Car Crashes Don't Stop Driving 55 Bare Hands and Bombs 59 The
White Zone 66 Part Four Gonzo Interlude Being Dave Rastovich 75 A Thrust
Too Far 87 Do You Know Russell Winter? 92 Four Surfers and a Painting 98
Part Five Contests and Communities Higher than a High Five 105 Black Clouds
and Bellyboards 109 Bad Boy Bobby and the New York Quiksilver Pro 114 The
Big M 120 Lord Thurso, Cool in Caithness 123 A Debt at Dungeons 126 After
Rio Breaks 133 Part Six Worldwide Waves Seven Ghosts 139 Hokkaido - The
Rights of Passage 145 1,300 Miles for a Wave 150 Ed's Left, aka the Spot
with No Name 153 Loco on Lobos 157 The Lady in the Emerald Green Bathing
Dress 162 Purring thanks to 'Da Cat' 168 Part Seven Obsession Peg Leg Rik
175 Soldiers Get Stoked 179 The Daily Wavester 182 The Amazing Mr Slater
186 Part Eight Inspiration Stoked 193 Colonel 'Mad Jack' Churchill 195 OMG
(Take 2) 199 Dr Sarah and the Meaning of Surfing 204 Acknowledgements 208

Rezensionen

'Expect an exhilarating ride alongside surfing legends.' -- Coast, September 2012

'With tales of monster waves, deadly sharks and perfect breaks, this book alone gets every surfer stoked - even if there isn't a wave in the sea' -- Cornwall Today, December 2012

'Entertainingly written and painstakingly researched there's something for everyone' -- Carve Surfing, February 2013