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ISBN / ISSN:
9780747589761
The Wavewatcher's Companion
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Gavin Pretor-Pinney (illustrations David Rooney & Graham White)
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One bright February afternoon, on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had come from, and decided to find out. He soon realised that waves don't just appear on the ocean, they are everywhere around us, and our lives depend on them. From the rippling beats of our hearts, to the movement of food through our digestive tracts and of signals across our brains, waves are the transport systems of our bodies. Everything we see and hear reaches us via light and sound waves, and our information age is reliant on the microwaves and infrared waves used by the telephone and internet infrastructure. From shockwaves unleashed by explosions to torsional waves that cause suspension bridges to collapse, from sonar waves that allow submarines to 'see' with sound to Mexican waves that sweep through stadium crowds...there were waves, it ...
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9780224075862
All for a Few Perfect Waves : The audacious life and legend of rebel surfer Miki Dora
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Author:
David Rensin
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Reclusive and gregarious, cocksure and cryptic, uncompromising and contradictory, Miki 'Da Cat' Dora was surfing's most outspoken practitioner, chief anti-hero and enduring mystery. At a time when the Beat poets were howling about the need to just, like, be yourself, man, Miki and a small group of social fringe-dwellers were realising those desires on the translucent swells of Southern California. But who was the real Miki Dora? Born in Los Angeles in 1934, Miklos Sandor Dora was one of the pioneers of the 50's surf scene - chasing wave after perfect, empty wave, from San Onofre to Malibu to Rincon. But as the beaches became more crowded and the businessmen took over the sport, Miki turned his back on the culture that had made him a hero, preferring instead the life of an outlaw. His scams caught up with him and in 1973 he was charged with fraud, but he skipped bail and went on the run.He was finally arrested in France in 1981 and ...
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9780810995680
Bustin' Down the Door: The Surf Revolution of '75
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NZ$ 65.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Shaun Tomson
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In the winter of 1975, South African and Australian upstarts Shaun Tomson, Rabbit Bartholomew and Mark Richards went to Hawaii with little else than their surfboards and their love of surfing. With their incredible skills and raw ambition, they not only set a new standard for wave riding, but also succeeded in transforming surfing from a casual pastime into a viable profession. Published to coincide with a documentary feature film narrated by Academy Award nominee Edward Norton, "Bustin' Down the Door" tells the incredible story of these free ride pioneers. With essays by the surfing legends themselves, along with previously unpublished photographs by award-winning photographers such as Dan Merkel, "Bustin' Down the Door" re-creates the genesis of modern surfing from the perspective of the visionaries who turned their unlikely dreams into reality and revolutionized the sport of surfing.
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9781840247411
Chasing Dean
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NZ$ 34.00 each
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Author:
Tom Anderson
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Two childhood friends from small-town Wales meet in Miami for a summer road trip they've always dreamed of: to chase the swell of Hurricane Dean all the way up the US East Coast in search of once-in-a-lifetime surf. They embark on a hilarious journey of self-discovery and a travel experience like no other. Mixing the humour of Sideways with the extreme conditions of The Perfect Storm, this new book by one of the UK's favourite new travel/surfing writers is a quirky travelogue destined to become a cult classic.
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9780811862226
Kelly Slater: For the love
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NZ$ 75.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Slater/Jarratt
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No one knows eight-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater better than Kelly himself. In this revealing and heartfelt illustrated tribute, written with surfing veteran Phil Jarratt, the world's best surfer riffs on a life filled with big wins, big money, and big loves. Interviews with friends and fellow surfers unearth juicy anecdotes, and hundreds of photographs-some never before published-capture the greatest victories and the quietest moments in equal measure. This beautifully produced book marks the first time Slater's story has been told in full colour, and reflects the latest twists and turns in an incredible and unconventional life.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780760335994
Legends of Surfing
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NZ$ 70.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Duke Boyd
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DoP November 2009
The greatest surfers on earth talk about their lives and careers in this book: from ironman Laird Hamilton, seven-time world champion Kelly Slater, musician Jack Johnson, Andy and Bruce Irons, Duke Kahanamoku, Lisa Andersen - one hundred of the greatest surfers from around the world talk candidly about their life, career, and what it means to live to surf. Fact-filled, and with dramatic photographs of these surfers in action this book is certain to appeal to any surfer, or water sport enthusiast, and is full of rare photos and first-person accounts that only legendary surfer Duke Boyd could collect
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9781741666762
Occy: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Mark Occhilupo
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Author:
Mark Occhilupo
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Child star at sixteen, ranked third in the world at seventeen, winner of the Pipeline Masters at nineteen - Mark Occhilupo looked set to sweep all before him with a radical, spontaneous, irresistible brand of surfing. Yet a spiralling descent into drug abuse and depression snuffed his flame out prematurely, when he quit the pro tour at just twenty-two. Faltered comebacks, spectacular bursts of free-surfing and manic breakdowns followed, as the surfing world watched a freakish talent self-combust.
After years spent immobile and overweight on the couch, in his so-called 'Elvis period', Occy eventually emerged from his cocoon, reborn and ready to tackle a whole new generation of surf stars.
His celebrated comeback to win the world title in 1999, sixteen years after his career began, is a sporting fairytale without equal.
Now for the first time, in his own words, Occy tells the complete, remarkable story of his spectacular ...
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9780060096311
Pipe Dreams
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NZ$ 31.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Kelly Slater
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With its tiny waves, Cocoa Beach, Florida, isn't exactly a breeding ground for future world-champion surfers. When Kelly Slater was a grommet growing up there, his biggest goal was to one day make it out far enough to catch the two-foot waves his dad and brother were riding.
Life in the Slater household wasn't perfect, and as his parents' marriage fell apart and his dad battled alcoholism, Slater escaped to the beach and found peace on a surfboard. Within a few years, his insatiable thirst for competition and an uncanny - almost innate - understanding of the physics of surfing would soon catapult him into the ranks of the very gods of the sport he'd worshipped, and into the thundering walls of water they faced along the North Shore of Hawaii and around the world.
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Pipe Dreams
, Slater offers a breathtaking, adrenaline-soaked ride through a churning Pipeline tube. He pays tribute to close friends who lost their lives surfing ...
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9781740667401
Salts and Suits: The Amazing True Story of How a Group of Young Surfers Became Industry Giants
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Phil Jarrat
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9781869662813
Searching For Groundswell : A New Zealand Surfer's Road Trip
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Paul Hersey
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Simply put, New Zealand is a great place to be a surfer. In Searching for Groundswell, Paul Hersey takes the ultimate surfing road trip, looking to connect with the best beach breaks, points and reefs along the 15,000 kilometres of coastline that surround New Zealand. He journeys to Dunedin, the Catlins, Christchurch, Kaikoura, the West Coast, Wellington, Taranaki, Raglan, Tauranga, East Cape, Gisborne and Auckland before returning to his surfing roots in Northland. Paul discovers that the sleepy surf communities of his youth are now vibrant coastal resorts, many with shopping malls and suburban developments lining the shore. The essential thrill of catching a wave is exactly the same but a burgeoning surf industry has meant considerable change in the culture of surfing in New Zealand. Part meditation, part documentary: this book celebrates surfing and explores the special relationship surfers have with the sea.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781741669275
Surf for Your Life : Mick Fanning
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NZ$ 43.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mick Fanning & Tim Baker
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Mick Fanning might only be 27 but he already knows how a lot of things feel that most of us never will. How does it feel to lose a brother? Win a world title? Rip your hamstring muscle clean off the bone? Weave through a zippering Superbank barrel for 20 or 30 seconds or paddle over the ledge at places like Pipeline and Teahupo? Have scoliosis so bad you can't get off the floor? Mick is young but he already exudes a quiet wisdom beyond his years, and now he is ready to share it with anyone wanting to further their surfing, whether competitively or for sheer pleasure. Mick tells his life story candidly - in turns funny, sensitive, thoughtful, self-deprecating - with practical tips on surfing technique, fitness, nutrition, board design, travel, competitive strategies and mental clarity. Mick has overcome personal tragedy and career-threatening injury on his way to claiming the 2007 world surfing title. Universally acknowledged as the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780071477420
Surfing Illustrated
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NZ$ 35.00 each
Paperback
Author:
John Robison
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This title features expert instruction you need to take your skills from kook to boss. Author John Robison uses hundreds of pictures - comical, cartoon-like drawings - to clearly illustrate every aspect of surfing: wave dynamics, riding techniques, etiquette, logistics, and more. This entertaining, easy-to-understand visual presentation makes it easy for you to pick up his techniques and use them on the waves. Robison covers every aspect of the sport, from paddling out through the surf zone and catching and riding that first wave to nose riding, acrobatics, shortboard riding, and to equipment repairs.
ISBN / ISSN:
9781423601791
Surfing Women of the Waves
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NZ$ 86.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Linda Chase
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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 Layne Beachley, Sofia Mulanovich, Bethany Hamilton, and the great Lisa Andersen, four-time women's world champion. Today, women of all ages and skill levels have taken their place among the waves-longboarders, shortboarders, goofyfooters, hotdoggers, young girls, and surfer moms-these are the women of the waves!
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9780670072620
The Pilgrimage
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Sean Doherty
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In The Pilgrimage some of the world's top surf writers pay tribute to 50 of the world's best waves - the breaks which have become so much part of surfing folklore that they've developed a life force of their own. The text creates a great sense of place, and there's practical information on getting to (nearly) every break, the best time to go, what to take, where to stay, and what to look out for. The Pilgrimage is the perfect read for anyone who has ever caught, or tried to catch, a wave, from grommets to geriatrics. Destinations include: Australia and New Zealand; Indonesia and southern Asia; the north and south Pacific; Africa and the Indian Ocean; Europe and Great Britain; North and South America.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781741757132
Tunnel Vision: The True Story Of My Probably Insane Quest to Become a Professional Surfer
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Sullivan McLeod
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In an effort to have an answer to the question,
'What are you doing now, Sully?'
inveterate traveller Sullivan McLeod started to tell people he'd decided to become a professional surfer.
Then somehow he was registered in the World Qualifying Series (WQS) and found he was going ahead with his stupid idea. If you want to be a pro, this is where you start. So, despite the fact that he was unfit physically, financially and possibly mentally, Sullivan goes into training for his nine months on the circuit, with frequent sidetracking into drinking and partying, but he does actually make it to most of the heats. Along the way he has to work out how to get to the next competition in the next country on his very tight budget, and he shares his highly entertaining observations about Americans, Brazilians, the Brits, French and ex-pat Australians, to name but a few.
And he has his fair share of mishaps: he gets locked up in a ...
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9780071497060
Wingnut's Complete Surfing
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Scott Bannerot
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9780854670918
A Guide to Surfriding in New Zealand
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Author:
Wayne Warwick
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9780732286385
A Wave Away : A Line-Up of Surfing's Most Amazing Locations
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Author:
Matt Griggs
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Dop 2008
Australia
234 x 156 x 24 mm
pp 320
softcover
In A Wave Away, surfer and author Matt Griggs escapes to some of the planet's most intriguing surfing locations. From far-off places such Israel, Chile and Spain, to the more commonly known beach breaks in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australlia and South Africa, he and his friends from the surfing world explore the landscape as well as the swell.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9783822853382
Bunker Spreckels
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Author:
C.R. Stecyk
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The tale of Bunker Spreckels (1949-1977) reads like a pitch for a movie to rival "Boogie Nights". The stepson of Clark Gable is a privileged Los Angeles party boy who is heir to a multimillion dollar fortune; passionate about surfing, marshal arts, guns, and women, he lives the life of a debauched international jet-setter before succumbing to his excesses at the tender age of 27. Born Adolph B. Spreckels III, heir to the Spreckels sugar fortune, Bunker became a famous surfer as a teenager, but after his inheritance came along, he began to slip into a life of pomp and excess where surfing took a back seat to drugs, sex, and wild road trips. So remarkable was his lifestyle that he created an alter-ego who invited photographers and documentarists to trail him, piecing together a tell-all epic of his own rise to fame and fortune. Before the project, known as "The Player", could be completed, Spreckels suddenly died of "natural causes." ...
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9780811862820
California Surf Project
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NZ$ 90.00 each
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Burkard/ Soderquist
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