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Book The Surfing Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kory Victor
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-01-29
  • ISBN : 9781523768509
  • Pages : 28 pages

Download or read book The Surfing Boy written by Kory Victor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful children's book about a bath time adventure on the seas. Meet the boy's ocean friends including turtles, dolphins, and jellyfish.

Book Surfer Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gaël P. Mustapha
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780896103023
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Surfer Boy written by Gaël P. Mustapha and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keoni, a teen living on the North Shore of Oahu, enjoys surfing while struggling with challenges such as getting a driver's license, first love, friendship with a Samoan neighbor family, and relations within his own family.

Book Barbarian Days

Download or read book Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.

Book Mop Rides the Waves of Life

Download or read book Mop Rides the Waves of Life written by Jaimal Yogis and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If only life could be like surfing! Having "funny" hair and being embarrassed in school is hard, but when little surfer Mop studies the lessons of the waves—breathing, letting the bad waves go by, and riding the good ones—he learns how to bring the mindfulness and joy of surfing into his whole life. Celebrated San Francisco surfer-journalist-dad Jaimal Yogis teaches 4-8 year olds timeless beach wisdom with the story of Mop, a sensitive and fun-loving kid who just wants to be in the ocean. Going to school and navigating classmates can be hard—but all that goes away when little surfer Mop paddles out in the waves. With a few tips from his clever mom, Mop studies the wisdom of the water and learns to bring it into his life on land: taking deep breaths, letting the tough waves pass, and riding the good ones all the way. With newfound awareness and courage, Mop heads back to land—and school—to surf the waves of life. With stylish full-color beachy illustrations from cover to cover.

Book Let My People Go Surfing

Download or read book Let My People Go Surfing written by Yvon Chouinard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.-shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian blacksmith to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his innovative designs for the sport's equipment, Let My People Go Surfing is the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business life-a book that will deeply affect entrepreneurs and outdoor enthusiasts alike. A newly revised edition of Let My People Go Surfing is available now. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Surfer Boy Bo  PB

    Book Details:
  • Author : Di Morissey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 9781922134097
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Surfer Boy Bo PB written by Di Morissey and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surfer Boy Bo features a young boy named Bo, who discovers all kinds of sea life beneath the surface of the ocean, both strange and wonderful creatures and their beautiful homes. Bo also learns that parts of this underwater world are disappearing, and that it is up to us to take care of the environment, by ensuring that we dispose of our waste properly.

Book The Surfing Penguin

Download or read book The Surfing Penguin written by Kimberly Maslin and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much anticipated sequel to "The Tweeting Galah" sees new and familiar faces return to outback Australia, as they explore and navigate their way through the digital world. Together, they overcome challenges and learn how to be the best versions of themselves online. Each story concludes with reflection questions and an augmented reality experience.

Book Dawn and the Surfer Ghost  The Baby Sitters Club Mystery  12

Download or read book Dawn and the Surfer Ghost The Baby Sitters Club Mystery 12 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in California for the surfing competition, Dawn must soon solve a mystery involving a missing surfer, a mangled surfboard, and a ghost who surfs at night.

Book AFROSURF

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mami Wata
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 1984860410
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book AFROSURF written by Mami Wata and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations. AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf. Mami Wata brings together its co-founder Selema Masekela and some of Africa's finest photographers, thinkers, writers, and surfers to explore the unique culture of eighteen coastal countries, from Morocco to Somalia, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond. Packed with over fifty essays, AFROSURF features surfer and skater profiles, thought pieces, poems, photos, illustrations, ephemera, recipes, and a mini comic, all wrapped in an astounding design that captures the diversity and character of Africa. A creative force of good in their continent, Mami Wata sources and manufactures all their wares in Africa and works with communities to strengthen local economies through surf tourism. With this mission in mind, Mami Wata is donating 100% of their proceeds to support two African surf therapy organizations, Waves for Change and Surfers Not Street Children.

Book Local Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fred Hemmings
  • Publisher : Legacy Isle Publishing
  • Release : 2017-12-15
  • ISBN : 9781935690962
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Local Boy written by Fred Hemmings and published by Legacy Isle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up local in the Hawaiian Islands, Fred Hemmings experienced Hawai`i from the outside breaks of O`ahu¿s North Shore to the inner workings of state government. In Local Boy, the veteran waterman offers his own unique view of the Islands¿the big surf, the changing times and the memorable adventures with friend and role model Duke Kahanamoku.

Book Malibu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Marcus
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780738576145
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Malibu written by Ben Marcus and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malibu offers the best in Southern California living. This small town is situated close to Los Angeles and Hollywood, but far enough away from the traffic and stress of big-city life. All the clichés of Southern California come true in Malibu: the swimming pools, movie stars, paparazzi, and fancy cars. It's the land of champagne wishes and caviar dreams. But Malibu is also a beautiful, quiet, and surprisingly rural beachfront community. In a desirable location going back to the time of the Chumash Indians, the peace and environment of Malibu have been protected by city fathers with a vision. This is the California Riviera, a thin slice of la dolce vita located between the Santa Monica Mountains and the deep blue sea.

Book The Way of the Surfer

Download or read book The Way of the Surfer written by Drew Kampion and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a photographic history of surfing around the world since 1935, and features profiles of eleven of the most important practitioners of the sport.

Book Seal Surfer

Download or read book Seal Surfer written by Michael Foreman and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing the birth of a seal, Ben forges a close bond with it, observing and sharing her life in the ocean.

Book Becoming the Beach Boys  1961 1963

Download or read book Becoming the Beach Boys 1961 1963 written by James B. Murphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every other teenage garage band with no musical training? They had raw talent, persistence and a wellspring of creativity that launched them on a legendary career now in its sixth decade. Following the musical vision of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys blended ethereal vocal harmonies, searing electric guitars and lush arrangements into one of the most distinctive sounds in the history of popular music. Drawing on original interviews and newly uncovered documents, this book untangles the band's convoluted early history and tells the story of how five boys from California formed America's greatest rock 'n' roll band.

Book Surfer of the Century

Download or read book Surfer of the Century written by Ellie Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brief biography of Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku, five-time Olympic swimming champion from the early 1900s who is also considered worldwide as the 'father of modern surfing'"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Beach Boys FAQ

Download or read book The Beach Boys FAQ written by Jon Stebbins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-century after their first single release, “Surfin' ” the Beach Boys continue to define California popular culture and the sunshine-infused sound that will forever be its living soundtrack. But beyond innocent harmonies touting the delights of catching waves and cruising to the drive-in, the Beach Boys are responsible for some of the most sophisticated pop/rock music ever made. Brian Wilson's acclaimed production, the 1966 LP Pet Sounds, was both a creative triumph that inspired The Beatles' best work, and a commercial disappointment that was widely misunderstood by the band's U.S. fans. The Beach Boys followed that with perhaps the greatest three-minute rock single ever, “Good Vibrations ” which wowed the critics, was a worldwide number one hit, and ushered Brian Wilson down the path of substance abuse and mental illness. Brian then leapt into the abstract madness of Smile, his epic psychedelic masterpiece that was ultimately scrapped in a 1967 sea of paranoia that nearly drowned the Beach Boys as an act. As the 1970s dawned, the endless summer of nostalgia designated the Beach Boys as its favorite sons. They recorded a critically lauded string of albums even while coping with the knowledge that their creative leader, Brian Wilson, had become a semipermanent recluse and a casualty of his own excess. Still, the Beach Boys continued through controversy, conflict, and death, rising again and again to find more popularity and more commercial peaks into the 1980s and beyond. As the new millennium unfolds, the Beach Boys are still here and continue to be a popular concert attraction and one of rock's most compelling and important stories. In The Beach Boys FAQ, Jon Stebbins explains how the band impacted music and pop culture. This entertaining, fast-moving tome is accompanied by dozens of rare images, making this volume a must-have for fans.

Book Cool Surfer Dude on the Beach Notebook

Download or read book Cool Surfer Dude on the Beach Notebook written by B. B. A. Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy 6 x 9 inch, 109 page blank lined notebook with subject and date placeholders on each page. This enables you to organise your notes and refer back to them really easily. There's a text quote JUST SURFIN' added to the bottom of each page for added beach appeal! Great to take with you on that summer vacation or retreat. Surf's Up so enjoy!