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Genre/Form: | Anecdotes |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matt Warshaw |
ISBN: | 0156029537 9780156029537 |
OCLC Number: | 55105814 |
Notes: | "A Harvest original." |
Description: | xxi, 360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Excerpt from A "Voyage to the Pacific Ocean" / Captain James Cook -- Excerpt from "Roughing it" /Mark Twain -- Excerpt from "Mardi" / Herman Melville -- Excerpt from "The cruise of the snark" / Jack London -- Excerpt from "Childe Harold" / Lord Byron -- Excerpt from "Gidget" / Frederick Kohner -- "The legend lives: finding Mickey Dora" -- Excerpt from "Apocalypse now" screenplay / John Milius -- "Doonesbury" / Garry Trudeau -- "Jock's night trip" / Allan Weisbecker -- "The land Duke forgot" / Dave Parmenter -- Excerpt from "A native son of the golden west" / James Houston -- "Murphy" / Rich Griffin -- "Excerpt from "Maverick's" / Matt Warshaw -- "Jesus Christ, personal friend of surfing" / Cintra Wilson -- Excerpt from "The Pump House Gang" / Tom Wolfe -- "Peanuts" / Charles Schulz -- "Surf girls of Maui" / Susan Orlean -- Surf dudes of beach 89" / Charlie Rubin -- "N.Y.P.D." / Peter Spacek -- "Waterbed" / Allston James -- "New York's a lonely town" / The Trade Winds -- "Black sea blues" / William Finnegan -- "Return of the prodigal surfer" \ Bob Shacochis -- "Sufers of fortune" / Derek Rielly -- Excerpt from "The ninth wave" / Eugene Burdick -- "Salty dog Sam goes surfin'"/ R. Crumb -- Excerpt from "The dogs of winter"/ Kem Nunn -- Excerpt from "Hang dead Hawaiian style"/ Patrick Morgan -- Excerpt from "The tribes of Palos Verder -- "Haole go home"/ Anonymous -- Excerpt from "You should have been here an hour ago" / Phil Edwards -- Excerpt from "Caught inside"/ Daniel Duane -- "Why do you surf? / Surfer magazine -- Excerpts from "On water" / Thomas Faber -- "Wave for Mickey Dora"/ John Kilroy. |
Responsibility: | edited by Matt Warshaw. |
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Abstract:
An anthology of literary pieces and essays on surfing is complemented by classic and modern photographs and artwork and includes Mark Twain's nineteenth-century description in "Roughing It" and Susan Orlean's essay on girl surfers in Maui.
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