Author:
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: yearbook, surfing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-05-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1423605586
ISBN-13: 9781423605584
THE SURFING YEAR BOOK OFFERS the complete package of news, features, results, opinions, and photography, providing an insider’s view of everything that matters in each of the world’s surfing regions-Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan, South and Central America, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. (20090528)
Author: Hilary Nickell
Publisher: How to Books
Keywords: career, surfing
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-12
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 1857038584
ISBN-13: 9781857038583
This guide aims to help the reader to decide which career is right for him or her or whether to change his or her job for a better one. Sorted into occupational groups, it includes everything from accountancy to zoology. Each related group contains key organizations and job types and all are classified according to the nationally recognized system. There are over 1500 web sites listed in this second edition, covering careers, education, training and job hunting. Each one has been personally selected, evaluated and rated by a professional careers officer.
Author: Matt Warshaw
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: surfing, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 816
Published: 2005-11-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0156032511
ISBN-13: 9780156032513
Now in paperback and updated to include forty new entries, this "leviathan of surf literature" (Surfing magazine) is a remarkable collection of expert knowledge, spine-tingling stories, and little-known trivia. With 1,500 alphabetical entries and 300 illustrations, The Encyclopedia of Surfing is the most comprehensive review of the people, places, events, equipment, vernacular, and lively history of this fascinating sport by "one of surfing’s most knowledgeable historians" (San Francisco Chronicle). Each year, the surf industry brings in $4.5 billion, and more than two-and-a-half million
Author: Jim Kempton
Publisher: Hedonist Surf Co.
Keywords: advanced, manual, surfing
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0977556913
ISBN-13: 9780977556915
The definitive guide to surfing from the world’s leading extreme sports publishers, Wavefinder. Never before has such an esteemed assembly of the world’s greatest surfers come together to provide the deepest insights and secrets of surfing for surfers.
Author: Carla Golembe
Publisher: Bess Press
Keywords: surfing, story
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 157306243X
ISBN-13: 9781573062435
A young girl learning to surf dreams that she is part of the great span of surfing history that includes ancient kings and queens of Hawai’i and more modern surfing greats like Duke Kahanamoku and Rell Sunn. In a palette that reflects the rich colors of Hawai’i’s skies and sea, Carla Golembe paints and tells a story whose rhythm and rhyme capture the feel of riding a board on Waikiki’s fabled waves. The accompanying read-along CD further adds the sounds of Hawai’i. Carla Golembe is the author of numerous books for children, including The Story of Hula, which in
Author: Jim Heimann
Publisher: Taschen
Keywords: anniversary, taschen, surfing, vintage
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 3836514362
ISBN-13: 9783836514361
Covering the 1920s to the 1960s, this book brings together vintage ads, postcards, brochures, and photographs as well as period Top 10 lists covering surf superstars, songs, and surfing spots. If you’ve ever found yourself waxing nostalgic for bygone beach culture, this is the book for you.
Author: Linda Chase
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Keywords: waves, women, surfing
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1423601793
ISBN-13: 9781423601791
"Surfing is art on waves, a form of self-expression." -Lisa Andersen, four-time women’s world champion." As the official counterculture sport of the 1960s, surfing was not just a sport but a lifestyle, one long, sun-drenched beach party with endless waves and music, as well as an unapologetically masculine culture. This notion has since been disproved by generations of amazing female surfers who have made an indelible mark on the sport. Surfing: Women of the Waves highlights some of these extraordinary women of surfing, from Linda Benson and Joyce Hoffman in the 1950s and 1960s to Layn
