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Edmundson, Joseph :
1965 The Hand Book Of Swimming And Water Sports
Arthur Baker Limited 20 New Bond Street London W1
Hard cover, 240 pages, Bibliography, Appendices
Chapter Twelve : ‘Surfriding and Surf-ski-ing’ pages 159 – 175, 3 b/w illustrations
Appendix B : ‘The cost of water sports equipment’ page 236
Appendix C : ‘How to make a surfboard’ pages 237 – 240
Review
Quaint account of English ‘surfriding’ circa 1965, ten years behind the Pacific scene, showing a strong Australian influence.
Special note :Figure 53 (page 169): “9’0” ‘Malibu’ Type Surfboard” is a classic.
See Surfcraft Plans and Specifications.
By the same author “The Handbook of Games for Parties”.
1965 The Hand Book Of Swimming And Water Sports
Pan Books Ltd, 8 Headfort Place, London, S.W.1
Soft cover, 239 pages, Bibliography, Appendices.
Image scanned above/right.

Edwards, Phil with Ottum, Bob :
1967 You Should Have Been Here An Hour Ago -
The Stoked Side of Surfing or How To Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy
Harper and Rowe 49 East 33rd Street New York, NY 10016
Hard cover, 179 pages, 71 black and white photograghs, 2 black and white illustrations
Review
In many aspects, an unique surfing book.
Excerpt :
Plans and Specifications : 1965 Phil Ewards' Hobie Nose-Rider

1824 - 1831
Ellis, Rev. William (1794-1872):
Polynesian Researches: Hawaii
A New Edition, Enlarged and Improved
Charles E. Tuttle and Company
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo Japan,1969.
Introduction by Edourad R. L. Doty, 471 pages.
Surfriding text pages 368 - 372.
Surfriding illustration frontpiece, fold-out map.

First Publication:
Ellis, Rev. William:
Narrative of a Tour of Hawaii, or Owhyhee; with Remarks on the History, Traditions, At, nners, Customs and Language of the Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands
H. Fisher and Son, London, 1826. P. Jackson, London,1826.
Surfriding text pages 276-8.

First Edition:

Ellis, Rev. William:
Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands, Volumes I to IV..
Fisher, Son and Jackson, London, 1831.
Surfriding text Volume IV, pages 368 to 372.
Dela Vega et al. (2004) page 19, notes
Hawaiian surfing text from the Narrative.
This edition introduces, on its title page the first published drawing of a man standing on a surf- board, by F. Howard.
Both Narrative and Polynesian Researches have been reprinted several times, and many do not have the surfing content and etching.

Surfriding text and surfriding illustration frontpiece are reproduced in:
Finney and Houston (1996) Appendix C. Pages 98 to 99.

Evans, Jeremey :
1993 Adventurers : Surfing
Julian Holland Publishing Ltd. Halley Court , Jordon Hill, Oxford OX2 8EJ
Hard cover, 48 pages, 61colour photographs, 3 colour illustrations, Glossary, Index.
Photographs by Simon McComb, Illustrations by Lawrie Taylor
Review
British juvinile How-To book that covers all the basics competently, the photographs mainly of Europe and Hawaii. Comments on measuring wave size ('How Big?', page 16) are questionable. Jeremy Evans is mostly noted as an author of windsurfing books, one of which, Adventurers : Windsurfing also appears in this series.

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Note
This is not a complete list of surfing books, only books read and reviewed for this site are listed.
For more comprehensive lists go to...
The Surfing Bibliography - Surfing Books
- Steven Whelan's (England).comprehensive list of books, film, video and magazines, listed alphabetically.
and/or
The Water Log Surfing Bibliography
- excellent listing of books and journals by Daved Marsh (USA) listed by category. From USA