The Surfing Yearbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1423605586 ISBN 13: 9781423605584

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2009

Synopsis

THE SURFING YEAR BOOK OFFERS the complete package of news, features, results, opinions, and photography, providing an insider's view of everything that matters in each of the world's surfing regions-Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan, South and Central America, United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
An extended Surfing Year Book awareness campaign is underway at Surfersvillage.com, the world's biggest surfing news Web site, with more than twenty-two million visitor sessions a year.
Surfersvillage will also utilize its large family of publishing partners around the world to advertise the book's arrival in all surfing markets.
With each regional section offering text in English and language of origin, the book will have broad appeal in all world surfing markets.
Photo essays from the best surf photographers around the world; profiles of all the leading surfers of 2008.
Ocean environmental issues, weather, and swell reports.
The only global directory of surfing products and services.
International sponsors include: O'Neill, Quiksilver, Vans Europe, Oakley Europe, Solitude, Billabong, Hurley, Rip Curl, and Body Glove.
Online marketing and promotions.
Print and web advertising campaign.
Co-op available.
For years, Surfersvillage has led the world in providing the most comprehensive online information about the sport, culture, and industry of surfing, from the biggest swell events and contests to the tiniest club meets on the back beaches of the most remote coasts.

About this title

From the Inside Flap

Surfersvillage leads the world in providing the most comprehensive online information about the sport, culture and industry of surfing, from the biggest swell events, world championship contests and industry shakeups, to the tiniest club meets on remote coasts. If it happens in surfing, somewhere, you'll read about it within hours on Surfersvillage, with images from the world's leading photographers.

The Surfersvillage experience is offered for the first time in a magnificent volume that enables the reader to keep and treasure the complete year in surfing. The Surfing Yearbook features the work of surfing's most creative minds, opinion-makers and leaders from around the world. From articles about the surfwear industry, surfing's involvement in environmental programs and fund-raisers for international charities, to a rundown of the challenging economics, and contest results from around the world, plus a spectacular almanac chronicling the year week by week, The Surfing Yearbook offers diverse views of a sport and culture that knows no geographic boundaries.

Editor Phil Jarratt leads a surfing A-list team including writers Nick Carroll, Sam Bleakley, Paul Botha, Paul Holmes, Gibus De Soultrait, Tim Baker and Drew Kampion, and many of the world's leading surf photographers, while luminaries of the sport whose insights complement the reporting work include world champions Rabbit Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, Peter Townend and Nat Young. Phil Jarratt has been a surfing editor, author, publisher and writer for almost forty years. Author of the acclaimed Mr Sunset: The Jeff Hakman Story, his most recent works are The Mountain & the Wave (2006) and Kelly Slater: For the Love (2008). He lives in Noosa Heads, Australia.

From the Back Cover

Whatever, wherever, whenever . . . if it happened in surfing, we've got it covered

About this edition

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1423605586
• ISBN 13: 9781423605584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240