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| 1969
St. Pierre, Brian The Plastic Fantastic Voyage - Across the South Pacific with Surfers and a Camera Coward - McCann, Inc. New York. 1969 Hard cover, 253 pages, black and white plates. Review |
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| 1874-1968
Scammon, Charles M: The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of America. Dover Publications, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY, 10014, 1968. Originally published by John H. Carmany and Company, San Francisco, and G.P. Putman's Sons, New York, 1874. Softcover, 325 pages, black and white plates and illustrations, Appendix, Index. Review For extract see Source
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| 2007
Spacejunk and Quicksilver: Art on Foam. Spacejunk Grenoble 15 rue Genissieu, 38000 Grenoble France, 2007 Soft cover, 57 pages, colour photographs. Review A selection of decorated surfboards commisioned from some significant artists associated with board sports. A similar in theme to Burgoyne and Leslie: Board : Surf Skate Snow Graphics (1998). Limited edition of 5000 copies. This copy, courtesy of John McInnes |
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| 1867
Steedman, Charles: Manual of Swimming: including Bathing, Plunging, Diving, Floating, Scientific Swimming, Training, Drowning, and Rescuing Henry Tolman Dwight, Bourke Street, Melbourne Lockwood and Co, London. 1867. Review. See Source Documents
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| 1874
Stoddard, Charles Warren: Summer Cruising in the South Seas. Chatto and Windus, London. 1874. 1987 Edition (Cover image, right).
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| 1931
(Possibly Mortons/Slessor ?): Surf - All About It. 1931. No author, editor or publishing details in evidence. One copy noted with a pencil annotation on page which appears to attribute copyright to "Slessor 26.2.31". Soft cover, 50 pages, black and white illustrations and diagrams. Review. A jovial and enthusiastic promotional work for surfbathing in a wide range of manifestations. The author is not identified and two contributing columnists have the by-lines "Medico" and "Eve", the later advising on Beauty and the Beach, pages 27 to 29. Profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations (some of high quality) and cartoons, the later the only apt description for the Surfing Map on page 49. There are some black and white photographs, but these are only used in advertisments. For surfboard riding extracts see Source Documents: 1931 (Slessor) : Surf - All About It. |
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| 1932
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia : The Australian Surf Life Saving Handbook Eighth Edition (Revised 1932) JNO, Evans and Son Printing Coy., 486-488 Kent Street Sydney, New South Wales Soft cover, 263 pages, black and white photographs, black and white illustrations, Index. Review Note : Plan and Specifications (solid wood Alaia surfboard), pages 196-170 Instructions for use ofSurf Board, page 170 Rescue work with Surf Boards, includes rules for Board Rescue Event, pages 172 - 173: and Plans and Specifications for Surf Life Saving Boats pages 150 - 154. Also note photographs : 1. Propelling a Suf Board, page 83. Possibly Claude West. 2. Many of the Australian Surf Life Savers are skilled surf-board riders, page 171 3. Riding and shooting the breakers on Sydney beaches, page 171. 4. Surf Boards and Riders, page 173. Probably Palm Beach. Note that there is no mention or photographs of Surfskis. |
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| 1938
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia : The Australian Surf Life Saving Handbook Tenth Edition (Revised 1938) JNO, Evans and Son Printing Coy., 486-488 Kent Street Sydney, New South Wales Soft cover, 287 pages, black and white photographs, black and white illustrations, Index. Review Text highlights (same as 1932 Edition above) : Plan and Specifications (solid wood Alaia surfboard), pages 182 - 183 Instructions for use of Surf Board, page 183 Rescue work with Surf Boards, includes rules for Board Rescue Event, pages 184 - 185; and Plans and Specifications for Surf Life Saving Boats pages 161 - 167. Also note photographs, three from the 1932 Edition (marked ##) : 1. Propelling a Suf Board, page 83. ## Possibly Claude West. 2. Five riders and boards at shoreline (uncaptioned), page 102 ## Probably Palm Beach. 3. Surfskis (uncaptioned), page 180. Early models - plus 26 inches wide with paddle ropes. Not referred to in the text. 4. Showing surfboard "shooters" taking a wave, page 181. ## Previously captioned ...Australian Surf Life Savers... 5. The Rubber Surf Float, page 267. Surfoplane carried by competitor in club cap. Not referred to in the text |
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| 1947
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia : The Australian Surf Life Saving Handbook Fifteenth Edition (Revised June 1947) JNO, Evans and Son Printing Coy., 486-488 Kent Street Sydney, New South Wales Soft cover, 282 pages, black and white photographs, black and white illustrations, Index. Review Text highlights, mostly reprinted from previous editions (marked ##) : Specifications for making a Hollow Surf Board, pages 208 - 209. A variation on Tom Blake's Hollow Paddle Board 1937 Details and Specifications of Solid Surf Board , pages 210 - 211.## Instructions for use of Surf Board, pages 211. ## Surf Boards and Surf Skis Rescue Methods, pages 211 - 213 ## Surf Boards and Surf Skis Rules for Control by Clubs, page 213. Surf Board Race Rules, pages 274 - 275. Plans and Specifications for Surf Life Saving Boats pages 192 - 198. Also note photographs : 1. Surfboard race start, uncaptioned, Plate EX page 275, 2. Surfboard race finish, uncaptioned, Plate FX page 276, Both Manly, probably Ray Leighton. None of the surfing photographs from the previous editions are included. |
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| 1982
Symonds, Tom: Maroubra Surf Club - The First 75 Years. Lester-Townsend Publishing Pty. Ltd. Sydney, 1982. Hard cover, 103 pages, black and white photographs. Review For extracts see
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