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Val Dusty Experiment, The 
 (Kidman, Andrew; Frank, Jon; Sutherland, Mark; Others) : 
 1996 Litmus – A Surfing Odyssey
Tadevan Holdings Pty Ltd, PO Box 199 Alexandria NSW 2015 
 Soft cover, 91 pages, 95 colour photographs / sequences, 7 b/w photographs, 17 illustrations, 1 strip cartoon, 15 advertisements. 
*Originally conceived as design retrospective exercise (Tom Parrish 1995, Terry Fitzgerald 1996, Wooden boards 1997) this book features several significant articles – Terry Fiztgerald design, Wayne Lynch and Albert Falzon. The illustrations by Mark Sutherland are strangely unappealing and the inclusion of surf poetry is, as usual, unfortunate. For some reason, this book gets right up my nose, for example Mark Sutherland’s essay on the commercial and technological invasion of surfing (page8) – buy the book, the video, the compact disc, the tee shirt, the sweater (pages 1, 2, 82). First released in 1996 at $15 it was remarketed in November 1998 with a sticker covering the original price – “The Ultimate Surfing Experience : Only $5”. 
Special notes : 
1.Albert Falzon’s sequence of Greg Noll at Makaha, 4 December 1969 (pages 59 – 60) 
2. Wayne Lynch Interview. Question : “Is there anything you think surfer’s can do to help the environment?” Answer : “Give up, ha!” (page 44). 
1989
Van Dyke, fred :
30 Years of Riding the World's Biggest Waves
Published and Edited by Joseph Grassadonia
Ocean Sports international Publishing Group Inc.
Second Edition 1989
Soft cover, 105 pages, black and white photographs
Venture County Historical Society :
2000 In the Curl - The Evolution of Surfing in Ventura County :
Ten Personal Views
The Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly
Volume 44 Number 3. 2000.
Soft cover, 38 pages, colour photographs, black and white photographs, Acknowledgements.
Review
Professional history publication.
Essentially ten personal interviews - answers to nine set questions - with contributor and interviewee profiles.
Contributors include Bill Flores, Venura's first local surfer, and Karl Pope of Morey-Pope Surfboards.
The questions serve as a informative format for further surf researchers.
Accompanied by an excellent article, The Arrival of Surfing in Southern California by Arthur C. Verge.
The dramatic cover is a flipped image of Pipeline, Ohau, 1975 by Leroy Grannis.
 
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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 comprehensive list of books, film, video and magazines, listed alphabetically.
From England,
and/or
The Water Log Surfing Bibliography
- excellent listing of books and journals  by Daved Marsh USA, listed by category. From USA.
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