Former World Champion Nat Young brings surf fans a stunning color history that is easily the most authoritative book ever written on the sport. Young traces the surfing's development, from its origins among Hawaiian kings riding heavy wooden boards to current professionals shooting the pipe on space-age polymers. Spectacular color photographs leap from every page, complementing equally colorful biographies of some of the surfing's most remarkable -- and eccentric -- pioneers. A special feature includes never-before ...
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Former World Champion Nat Young brings surf fans a stunning color history that is easily the most authoritative book ever written on the sport. Young traces the surfing's development, from its origins among Hawaiian kings riding heavy wooden boards to current professionals shooting the pipe on space-age polymers. Spectacular color photographs leap from every page, complementing equally colorful biographies of some of the surfing's most remarkable -- and eccentric -- pioneers. A special feature includes never-before-published photographs from competitive surfing's early days in Hawaii and Australia.
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Add this copy of History of Surfing to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by Books End Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from SYRACUSE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Gibbs Smith.
Add this copy of The History of Surfing to cart. $13.65, good condition, Sold by Kona Bay Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kailua-Kona, HI, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Palm Beach Press.
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Add this copy of The History of Surfing to cart. $22.00, like new condition, Sold by Bookmine rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fair Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Palm Beach Press.
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The first half of the book is an interesting tale of how surfing spread from Hawaii to California to Australia. The second half is a lot less interesting because it gets into detail of how boards changed sizes, who won what competition. I started skimming.
Great color photos throughout.
