Mr. Sunset: The Jeff Hakman Story

Jarratt, Phil

ISBN 10: 1575440652 / ISBN 13: 9781575440651

Published by Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: General Pub Group, 1997

About this Item

Three board corners have 1/8 inch bruise. Book inscribed for UCSD Cancer Center in 2004. Please see photos. Light foxing to top of book and pages visible in photos. No tears to jacket. Heavy book that will require $60 postage on international orders.

Seller Inventory # 12-4

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mr. Sunset: The Jeff Hakman Story
• Publisher: Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.: General Pub Group
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575440652
• ISBN 13: 9781575440651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Mr Sunset is the remarkable, true story of a surfing legend. Jeff Hakman surfed waves as high as houses on Hawaii's North Shore when he was just thirteen. By seventeen he had won the world's most prestigious surfing title and been anointed the king of big wave riders by Duke Kahanamoku. At twenty one he was the most successful professional surfer the world had ever seen, and at thirty he was one of the surf industry's first millionaires. But somewhere along the way his life fell apart in the haze of drug addiction, and it has taken the courage of the little boy who surfed monster Waimea Bay with his dad to drag himself out of the gutter and start life anew.
Illustrated with contemporary and classic photos by the world's leading surf photographers, Mr Sunset reveals the surfing subculture as it has never been revealed before. If you only ever read one book about surfing, make it this one.