Surf Nation

Author : Alex Wade
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781847394866

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Surf Nation by Alex Wade Pdf

If golf is the new football, then surfing must be the new golf. People are flocking to the sport in record numbers, often defying the unforgiving British climate to make the best of what can be some world-class waves. But is it all just surf dudes in VW camper vans heading down for a week's hell-raising in Newquay? Or is the sport attracting a wider range of addicts, often eschewing the established beaches in pursuit of a more solitary, and sometimes more dangerous, goal? In SURF NATION: IN SEARCH OF THE FAST LEFTS AND HOLLOW RIGHTS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND, Alex Wade takes the pulse of these islands' surfing credentials, and finds a growing army of devotees as well as some stunning locations. A witty and engaging mix of travelogue, reportage and guide to where to find the best breaks, SURF NATION reveals Britain and Ireland to be not just a growing hotbed of surfers but a surf destination of real credibility.

Author : Alf Alderson
Publisher : Fernhurst Books Limited
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781909911055

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Surf UK by Alf Alderson Pdf

This is your ultimate guide to Britain's surf beaches. It's packed with the local knowledge you need to discover exciting waves in unexpected places. Discover the hidden spots that make the UK a surfing paradise. From the beach breaks of the UK's surfing epicentre - the South West - to the slab reefs of the North East, each chapter deals with a particular section of the coastline and each 'break' is discussed together with details about the beach including access, facilities and accommodation. Using this book, you should always find the best waves going, whatever your standard. There are also hints as to where you might discover your own 'secret spot' for those surfers eager to get off the beaten track.

Author : Matt Warshaw
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811856003

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The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Pdf

Matt Warshaw knows more about surfing than any other person on the planet. After five years of research and writing, Warshaw has crafted an unprecedented history of the sport and the culture it has spawned. At nearly 500 pages, with 250,000 words and more than 250 rare photographs, The History of Surfing reveals and defines this sport with a voice that is authoritative, funny, and wholly original. The obsessive nature of this endeavor is matched only by the obsessive nature of surfers, who will pore through these pages with passion and opinion. A true category killer, here is the definitive history of surfing.

Author : Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee,Alexander Sotelo Eastman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780822372820

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The Critical Surf Studies Reader by Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee,Alexander Sotelo Eastman Pdf

The evolution of surfing—from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture. As corporations have sought to promote surfing as a lifestyle and leisure enterprise, the sport has also narrated its own epic myths that place North America at the center of surf culture and relegate Hawai‘i and other indigenous surfing cultures to the margins. The Critical Surf Studies Reader brings together eighteen interdisciplinary essays that explore surfing's history and development as a practice embedded in complex and sometimes oppositional social, political, economic, and cultural relations. Refocusing the history and culture of surfing, this volume pays particular attention to reclaiming the roles that women, indigenous peoples, and people of color have played in surfing. Contributors. Douglas Booth, Peter Brosius, Robin Canniford, Krista Comer, Kevin Dawson, Clifton Evers, Chris Gibson, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee, Scott Laderman, Kristin Lawler, lisahunter, Colleen McGloin, Patrick Moser, Tara Ruttenberg, Cori Schumacher, Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Glen Thompson, Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Andrew Warren, Belinda Wheaton

Author : Jon Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317534693

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Surfing Spaces by Jon Anderson Pdf

The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it – by the places, ideas, images, and other representations which at once reflect, create, and commodify this spatial practice. This book innovatively explores the spaces of surf and surf-riding, informed specifically by the perspective of human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the social sciences, the book explores the locations, relational sensibilities, and transformative nature of surfing spaces, and examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of access, entitlement, and marginalization have been created, and how, with the advent of new craft, media, and ideals, they are being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Trademarks
ISBN : PSU:000066193593

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Scott Moore
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781605290980

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Sweetness and Blood by Michael Scott Moore Pdf

How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii—one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries—jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea? In Sweetness and Blood—a brilliantly written travel adventure—journalist (and surfer) Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations—Israel and the Gaza Strip, West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to find out. Whether he is connecting eccentric surf legend Doc Paskowitz to the Arab-Israeli conflict, trying to deconstruct the terrorist bombing in a nightclub in Bali, or being chased by the German police while surfing a river break in Berlin, Moore masterfully weaves together politics, culture, history, and surfing to create a book like no other.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433100957228

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The Nation [Electronic Resource] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paddy Dolan,John Connolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781315519111

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Sport and National Identities by Paddy Dolan,John Connolly Pdf

While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalising forces. Including case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport in divided societies, former global empires and aspirational nations within federal states. Each chapter looks at sport not only as a reflection of national rivalries but also as a changing cultural tradition that facilitates the reimagining of borders, boundaries and identities. The book questions how these national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices, both in the past and the present. Truly international in perspective, it features case studies from across Europe, the UK, the USA and China and touches on the topics of race, religion, terrorism, separatism, nationalism and militarism. Sport and National Identities: Globalisation and Conflict is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sociology of sport or the relationship between sport, politics, geography and history. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Kimberley Peters,Jon Anderson,Andrew Davies,Philip Steinberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351619660

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The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space by Kimberley Peters,Jon Anderson,Andrew Davies,Philip Steinberg Pdf

Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by, activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the ‘oceanic turn’ in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting insights into the relationships between society and the ‘seas around us’. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in socio-cultural and political life. Through six clearly structured and wide-ranging sections, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental, historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces, and also zones where national and international security comes into question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces, alongside 31 further, carefully crafted chapters from established as well as early career academics, this book provides both an accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today. This handbook brings together the key debates defining the ‘field’ in one volume, appealing to a wide, cross-disciplinary social science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of international examples, from a global collective of authors, this book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences continue their seaward ‘turn’, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our world is a water world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Measurement
ISBN : PSU:000048531351

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Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tim Baker
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742758282

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Australia's Century of Surf by Tim Baker Pdf

"Australia's century of surf marks the centenary of the great Hawaiian Olympic swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku's visit to Australia in 1914. Duke was not the first to ride a surfboard in Australia, but his surfing exhibitions in the summer of 1914-15 set in motion a great wave of oceanic obsession that continues to this day. Surfing has morphed from exotic curio to regimented training for lifesavers, from counterculture revolution to respectable mainstream sport. Along the way, it's shaped our coastal migrations, spawned vast business empires and design innovations, produced sports stars and spectacular casualties, and helped the beach overtake the bush as our national, natural habitat of choice."--Back cover.

Author : Caroline Ford
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742246840

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Sydney Beaches by Caroline Ford Pdf

Shark attacks and sewage slicks, lifesavers and surfers, amusement parks and beach camps – the beach is Sydney’s most iconic landscape feature. From Palm Beach in the north to Cronulla in the south, Sydney’s coastline teems with life. People from around the city escape to the beaches to swim, surf, play and lie in the sun. Sydney Beaches tells the story of how Sydneysiders developed their love of the beach, from 19th century picnickers to the surfing and sun-baking pioneers a century later. But Sydney’s beaches have another history, one that is lesser known and more intriguing. Our world-famous beach culture only exists because the first beachgoers demanded important rights. This book is also the story of these battles for the beach. Accompanied by vibrant images of Sydney’s surf, sand and sun worship, this expansive and delightful book is the story of how a city developed a relationship with its ocean coast, and how a nation created a culture.

Author : Dr Jon Anderson,Dr Kimberley Peters
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409450511

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Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean by Dr Jon Anderson,Dr Kimberley Peters Pdf

Critical human activities take place at sea, including trade, tourism, migration, scientific exploration and resource exploitation. This book offers a novel and important contribution to an ever-emerging cross-disciplinary subject matter and challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline, (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human) this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space and dispenses with fixed conceptions of space. It advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional.

Author : Paul Cliff
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780642107046

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A Sporting Nation by Paul Cliff Pdf

A Sporting Nation will appeal equally to the serious sports enthusiast and mainstream reader. Its main text comprises excerpts from the Library's oral history recordings, with additional features by Olympian Marlene Mathews, and Eric Rolls and Marion Halligan.Twenty-six richly illustrated features present a broad and popular sweep through the nation's sporting culture, opening with a recollection of the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and a survey of the Sydney 2000 Games by Marlene Mathews.