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Top 5 Choices When the Surf Is Flat
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In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the RoadIn Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road by Allan Weisbecker
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.99
Reading the chapter about "The Boat" is worth the price of the book. I can't believe this has not become a movie yet.
Surfings Greatest Misadventures: Dropping in on the UnexpectedSurfings Greatest Misadventures: Dropping in on the Unexpected
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.25
I have never surfed Trestles, but the section on the surfers' interactions with the military base personnel was absolutely hysterical.
Surf Science: An Introduction To Waves For SurfingSurf Science: An Introduction To Waves For Surfing by Tony Butt
Buy new: $23.71 / Used from: $16.49
Shows all the links between sun, earth rotation, winds, and climate to wave formation, size and period in easy to understand language with nice graphic illustrations. Unfortunately there is still no way to determine the number of waves in a set.
Maverick'sMaverick's by Matt Warshaw
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.66
It would be a safe bet that I will never be catching one of these waves in this lifetime.
Riding Giants (Special Edition)Riding Giants (Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.99
The brief history of surfing is hysterical. Greg Noll makes this movie a hit.