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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Foreword
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
Chapter 3 The Golden Years
From the Fall of Hitler to the Rise of Gidget • 1946 to 1959
Chapter 4 The Surfer Stomp
A Rock’n’Roll Soundtrack to the Waves • 1959 to 1967
Chapter 5 Blue Screen
Hollywood Exploits Surfing—and Vice Versa • The 1920s to Today
Chapter 6 Going Vertical
The Parallel Ascent of Kelly Slater and the Surf Industrial Complex • The 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 7 The Sport of Queens
Gidget Kicks Ass • From Ancient Hawai’i to Blue Crush and Beyond
Chapter 8 Monster
Surfing’s Twenty-First-Century Man • The 1990s to Today
Epilogue Something Wild
The Wave of Surf Culture • Through the Centuries
Acknowledgments and Sources
Index
About the Author
Copyright Page
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