Product Description

Information on where and when to surf plus pollution, erosion, hazards, access are covered in all the guides together with surf culture illuminating the history, surf media, contests and localism of the best surf spots around the world

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #451825 in Books
• Brand: Low Pressure
• Published on: 2001-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• Paperback
• Detailed analysis of surf spots and optimum conditions.
• Essential tool for globe-trotting waveriders, 120 maps and 500 superb photos.
• Lowdown on the local scene, hazards, accesss, directions, and accommodations.
• A unique set of symbols and stats make the information easily accessible.

Review
As we've all come to expect from Low Pressure, it's authoritative, crisp and accurate. -- Scott Hulet - The Surfers Journal

As we've all come to expect from Low Pressure, it's authoritative, crisp and accurate. -- Scott Hulet - The Surfers Journal

I cannot believe how good it is. -- Chris Evans - Surfrider Foundation

I have a copy of the The World Stormrider Guide on my desk. Best book I've ever bought. -- Marc Beatty - Surfing Magazine

You better have your frequent flyer miles and Amex card ready because the World Stormrider Guide is out. --Will Pennartz -Surfer Magazine

I cannot believe how good it is. -- Chris Evans - Surfrider Foundation

I have a copy of the The World Stormrider Guide on my desk. Best book I've ever bought. -- Marc Beatty - Surfing Magazine

You better have your frequent flyer miles and Amex card ready because the World Stormrider Guide is out. -- Will Pennartz -Surfer Magazine

From the Publisher
* The first and only guide to the worlds best surfing areas
* High quality design with colour road atlas style maps and superb photography
* Integrated text, symbols and maps contain crucial, otherwise unavailable information
* Sells to all ages, levels and types of surf enthusiasts
* Reference book format means that the guide is constantly read over and over again
* Follows on from the foundation reference book for the European surfing community, a proven world-wide favourite over 9 years

From the Author
A complete relief atlas combined with a crucial travel guide, giving information necessary when selecting a surf destination anywhere in the world. It informs where the main surf areas are in each country and will include detailed information on the surf, climate, consistency, when to go and when not to go, dangers, costs, crowds, visas, equipment, night life, culture, transport, accommodation and water quality.

Customer Reviews

The Best Published Surf Spots
Given that I'm an avid surfer/traveller, I decided to educate myself on surf spots outside of the United States when I began forays into the surf beyond the west coast of the United States. I purchased Surfer Magazine's set of global surf guides as well as other guidebooks as well. My first encounter with the Stormrider Surf Guide series was with my purchase of the Stormrider Guide to Europe about three years ago. Finding the Stormrider Surf Guide to Europe infinitely helpful -- I surfed some of the most amazing spots that were revealed by the guidebook in France, Spain and Portugal -- I decided to purchase the Stormrider Surf Guide to the World when I discovered that its release.

The World book is obviously not as detailed as its Europe counterpart. Given that the former covers EVERYWHERE and the latter focuses on a specific continent (and its outlying islands), the World book cannot afford to give you as much in-depth information as the Europe book did -- otherwise it would contain more volumes than the collected words of Winston Churchill.

This being said, the World book is extremely helpful in locating the general spots of the world that would pique any travelling surfer's interest. The photos, charts, diagrams and insider-information makes surfing in a foreign country less stressful and more enjoyable.

Again, as the title of this review suggests, the World book does indeed do a wonderful job of providing in-depth information on the more popular (hence, "best") published surf spots around the globe. If you wish to find the "secret spots" that "go off" you'll need to spend more time in wherever faraway land you've decided to surf. Get a chance to meet the locals, enjoy the spots you surf at and hide this book underneath the seat of your rental car. The Stormrider Guide to the World is your best bet to finding fun waves in foreign places.

Take care and don't forget your passport.

Good Overview
Cheers to the author for coming up with the first world wide surf guide book. The book includes helpful info on forecasting, how waves are created, and of course worldwide wave hotspots. It will be interesting to see a second edition of it since there are mistakes in the book. For example, for some areas the charts for best time of year to surf are off, to mention one Puerto Rico's. Also breaks are referred to by the wrong name sometimes and even the by month temperatures seem off (i.e Californias). I was eager to buy the book but once I saw the mistakes I decided to wait for maybe a corrected second edition. I recommend to the author that he researches the "hot spots" a bit more carefully. Also just for the sake of adventure a section discussing the potential of discovery around the world would be interesting to see, say the potential around the South Pacific, or Africa for new waves to be discovered. The book may work as a good beginners guide to where the waves are, but for a specific surf trip a more descriptive and more accurate guide would be invaluable.

A complete and beautifuk guide to any surfer
You will find anythin' in here : waves theory, advices, spots with maps and directions, meteo, A-ny-thing.
Not all of it is always useful (because you can't travel through all the countries...) But the surfing possibilities that are described in here will be enough to fill anyone's surfing life!