Surf literature isn't, always, an oxymoron. And sure there’s a load of books out there in the Amazon warehouses that depict surfing in all its forms. Autobiographies, biographies, coffee-table ...

Ever since the western world encountered surfing, as performed by natives in Hawaii and French Polynesia, they began to write about it. One of the first accounts came from Captain James Cook, who, ...

Jim Heimann is cultural anthropologist, graphic design historian, and an author of books on architecture, pop culture, and California history. Now — as you can clearly see here — he has produced, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a fair wager that few people have spent as much time thinking of, obsessing over, focusing on and writing about surfing and ...

The world’s oldest surfboard artifact belonged to a Hawaiian princess in the 1600s, during a time when a man could be beaten to near death if he dared surf the waters reserved for female royalty. In ...

Surfing has cost me two wedding rings, many thousands of dollars, and a few millimeters of intervertebral space in my spine. And I’m still not that good at it. I was drawn in the way most middle-aged ...

From the images in The Stylish Life: Surfing, you wouldn’t know that there’s much of a scene beyond California and Hawaii, writes Roger Cox Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's ...

In the mid-nineties, while prowling the library at the University of California at Santa Cruz for anything remotely related to surfing, I happened upon an extraordinary book, a 1964 first edition of ...

When Travis Nardi reads a bedtime story to his 2-year-old son, one of the boy’s top picks is Max Goes Surfing. Good thing it’s one of his favorites—his dad wrote the book and named the main character ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surf literature isn't, always, an oxymoron. And sure there’s a load of books out there in the Amazon warehouses that depict ...