With 1,500 alphabetical entries and 300 illustrations, this resource is a comprehensive review of the people, places, events, equipment, vernacular, and lively history of this fascinating sport.

In Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life, world champion surfer Shaun Tomson shares the life lessons he's gathered from decades of surfing-from his boyhood adventures in South Africa to the world tour in the late 1970s to the business world today. For Tomson, surfing is a hobby, a sport, a religion, an obsession and more-it is a way of life. Tomson's life lessons have guided his career to the top of both professional competition and the world of business. Now, he shares these powerful lessons, born on the world's best swells, with all people-including those who might never step on a surfboard. These lessons are born of the collective wisdom of the surf community and are a powerful source of inspiration in the face of extraordinary challenges of every day life.

Surfing, Jack London remarked, is “a royal sport for the natural kings of earth.” The greatest of those natural kings grant readers an audience in this glorious celebration of the world’s best surfers. Part exquisite picture book and travelogue to the top of the world, part biography and reference guidebook, Legends of Surfing profiles one hundred great surfers, men and women, from throughout the world. In life stories, and in exclusive interviews--which only the surfing icon Duke Boyd could have pulled off--stellar surfers such as Wayne Bartholomew, Tom Curren, Andy and Bruce Irons, Duke Kahanamoku, Dave Kalama, Gerry Lopez, Rob Machado, Mark Occhilupo, and Kelly Slater give us a rare firsthand look at what it’s like, in this crowded world, to “seek and find the perfect day, the perfect wave, and be alone with the surf and his thoughts.” (John Severson, Surfer magazine, 1960)

Recommended by the United States Surfing Federation as a book that every beginning surfer should read, this instructional guide details the basics of surfing gear, conditions, safety, etiquette, and history. Written by someone who went through the learning process, topics are covered with just enough detail to get the reader riding the waves qui...

This indispensable guide to surfing, bodysurfing, bodyboarding, and windsurfing on O'ahu, Kaua'i, Maui, and Hawai'i has been updated and redesigned to provide you with accurate and entertaining information about swells, wind conditions, and special features at over 50 surf spots. Includes full-color photos and maps and a directory of surf shops and camping areas.

After a series of tick bites, Dianne Ellis became extremely sick. Months of unsuccessful medical and natural treatment, including a week in hospital, left her struggling to hold onto life, terrified of leaving her girls. Just when she had given up hope one little old lady with a small bag of green, leafy herb changed everything. Dianne credits alfalfa-leaf tea with saving her life. Renewed, she embarked on a journey back to health and hope, releasing the profound emotional trauma deeply entwined within her physical illness. Dianne passionately shares her process for reclaiming her lost joy and vibrancy, which was enhanced by her deep connection with the ocean, including techniques, treatments, wisdom, and knowledge gained from working with a number of incredible healers along her journey. Her storyone of mystery illness, amazing healers, adoption, death, separation, and loss, a beautiful homebirth in the forests of Tasmania, a crazy gunman, astonishing breath sessions, deep love and forgiveness, singing, African drumming and dance, wild surfi ng and horse-riding adventures, and swimming with dolphinsis proof that from the ashes of the old, a new life can blossom.

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