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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Waves : Great Stories from the Surf
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"An illustrated anthology of the best of Australian surf writing. 'together they paddled hard to meet the rearing, feathered swells. Everywhere was spray and sunlight and upreaching force. Leaper and his companion scrambled atop the first and skittered down its back into the path of the next, leaving behind the sound of an avalanche.' - Tim Winton. Paddle the Ka'iwi Channel between Hawaiian islands with Tom Carroll. Roam the mean streets of Maroubra with Koby Abberton. Cruise remotest Indonesia on a luxury surf charter with Kelly Slater. Trade waves and wild yarns with Nat Young in Angourie. Search the remote Victorian coastline with Wayne Lynch. Dodge cleanup sets at Jaws and Mavericks with the world's top big wave surfers. Trace the last days of surfing's black knight Miki Dora. Ponder the ancient origins of surfing, tackle circus gorillas in Peru, and feel the ground shake as a huge swell hits the North Shore of Oahu this collection of great Australian surf stories sheds new light on the 'moveable feast' that is modern surfing, and gives an intimate insider's view of the mad compulsion to ride waves - whatever the costs. If you've never surfed, these stories will make you want to start. If you already surf, they'll remind you why you're never going to stop."

(Publisher's Blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2005 .
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      Extent: xxii, 266p., [16]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0732283302

Works about this Work

Sport Owen Richardson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 May 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
Untitled Alison Aprhys , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , November vol. 85 no. 5 2005; (p. 33)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
All Comes Out in the Wash Sonya Voumard , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2005; (p. 27)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
All Comes Out in the Wash Sonya Voumard , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 December 2005; (p. 27)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
Untitled Alison Aprhys , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , November vol. 85 no. 5 2005; (p. 33)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
Sport Owen Richardson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 May 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Waves : Great Stories from the Surf 2005 anthology prose
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