Zero Break: An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing, 1777-2004

Warshaw, Matt

ISBN 10: 0156029537 / ISBN 13: 9780156029537

Published by Mariner Books, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zero Break: An Illustrated Collection of Surf Writing, 1777-2004
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156029537
• ISBN 13: 9780156029537
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The author of The Encyclopedia of Surfing returns with this definitive anthology of the best-ever writing about surfing, illustrated with classic and cutting-edge photographs and artwork. Hip and eclectic, the collection speaks to surfing's widespread and longstanding appeal: from Mark Twain's nineteenth-century description in Roughing It to Susan Orlean's essay on girl surfers in Maui and Tom Wolfe's "The Pump House Gang."
This anthology covers it all-from early surfing literature to descriptions of the sport's most colorful characters, from hair-raising tales of big-wave surfing to an exploration of surf culture.

Includes contributions by:
R. Crumb, Daniel Duane, William Finnegan, Rick Griffin, Frederick Kohner, Jack London, Herman Melville, Susan Orlean, Charles Schulz, Mark Twain, and Tom Wolfe

About the Author

Matt Warshaw is the former editor of Surfer magazine and has been writing about surfing for more than twenty years. A surfer all his life, he competed professionally in the early eighties. Warshaw's articles have been published in the New York Times Magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and he is the author of several books on surfing. He lives in San Francisco.