Chapter 1 Catching the First Waves
From Polynesia with Love • The Dawn of Time to 1940
Chapter 2 From Here to Honolulu
Discovering the Secrets of the Sea • The World War II Years
From the Fall of Hitler to the Rise of Gidget • 1946 to 1959
A Rock’n’Roll Soundtrack to the Waves • 1959 to 1967
Hollywood Exploits Surfing—and Vice Versa • The 1920s to Today
The Parallel Ascent of Kelly Slater and the Surf Industrial Complex • The 1980s and 1990s
Gidget Kicks Ass • From Ancient Hawai’i to Blue Crush and Beyond
Surfing’s Twenty-First-Century Man • The 1990s to Today