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| 1988
Warren, Mark: Atlas of Australian Surfing Angus and Robertson Publishers Unit 4 Eden Park 31 Waterloo Road North Ryde NSW Australia 1988 Hard cover, 232 pages, 68 colour photographs?, 46 black and white maps?, Glossary, Index. Review Comprehensive guide to Australian surf breaks, in similar format to Jeff Carter (East Coast, 1968), Nat Young (East Coast, 1980/1983 and Surf/Sail Australia, 1986), Chris Rennie (Australia, 1998) and Richard Loveridge (Victoria, 1987). Break information (swell, tide, wind) is supplemented with occassional historical, cultural or personal observations. Blue boards with dust jacket. |
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| 1994
Warren, Mark: Atlas of Australian Surfing (Second Edition) Angus and Robertson Publishers Unit 4 Eden Park 31 Waterloo Road North Ryde NSW Australia. 1994 Hard cover, 232 pages, 68 colour photographs?, 46 black and white maps?, Glossary, Index. Review Comprehensive guide to Australian surf breaks, in similar format to Jeff Carter (East Coast, 1968), Nat Young (East Coast, 1980/1983 and Surf/Sail Australia, 1986), Chris Rennie (Australia, 1998) and Richard Loveridge (Victoria, 1987).. Break information (swell, tide, wind) is supplemented with occassional historical, cultural or personal observations. Basically same text/illustrations with some minor variation in format (pages 2 -3?), different cover in laminated boards. |
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| 1999
Warren, Mark: Atlas of Australian Surfing - Traveller's Edition Haper Collins Publishers 25 Ryde Road Pymble Sydney NSW 2073 Australia. 1999 Reprint of 1989 edition Laminated soft cover, 272 pages, 68 colour photographs, 46 black and white maps + continent map on end papers, Glossary, Index. Review Comprehensive guide to Australian surf breaks, in similar format to Jeff Carter (East Coast, 1968), Nat Young (East Coast, 1980/1983 and Surf/Sail Australia, 1986), Chris Rennie (Australia, 1998) and Richard Loveridge (Victoria, 1987). Break information (swell, tide, wind) is supplemented with occassional historical, cultural or personal observations. Despite being a 1999 edition, some details are incorrect -e.g. The Farm (page 126) is incorrectly shown on the map, appears to be confused with Mystics (page 127) and neither is private property, the area being declared as Killalea State Recreational Area in the early 1990's. This copy, courtesy of Shoalhaven City Library. |
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| 2000
Warshaw, Matt : Mavericks – The Story of Big Wave Surfing Chronicle Books, Inc. 85 Second Street, San Francisco, California 94105. 2000 Hard cover, 209 pages, 36colour photographs, 19 b/w photographs, numerous magazine reproductions, film poster reproductions, map, Bibliography, Photograph credits, Index. Review As implied by the tittle, an account of big wave surfing largley centralised on stories and photographs of Maverick's, California. This is most prominant in the focus on the death of Hawaiian Mark Foo in 1994, which dominates the book - Chapters 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. Alternate chapters (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10) give a overall historical perspective. The early history chapters, mostly Hawaii, are detailed and highly informative. However, the 20 year span of Chapter 6 (1970-1990) is a bit light. While noting the impact of professional surfing, it fails to mention significant developements such as the legrope and the 3 fin Thruster that undoubtedly took surfing performance both deeper and higher. Tow-in surfing is coverered in Chapter 8. The various comments on subjective wave height estimation are reflective of the confusion of this issue. "Surfers of course don't measure wave height by the face" - page 159. See How to measure waves. Pedants Corner : "Plank and cigar boards were both finless and lumbering, and virtually uncontrolable in waves over six feet. Even in smaller surf the idea usually was to chart a straight and undeviating course to shore... riding on a plum line to the sand." page 20 Matt Warshaw maintains the myth that pre-1940 surfers rode straight to the beach, when all the available evidence indicates that 'cutting' was an integral part of surfing since ancient times. This copy, courtesy of Shoalhaven City Library. |
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| 2004
Warshaw, Matt : The Encyclopedia of Surfing Viking Penguin Books Australia Pty Ltd 250 Camberwell Road Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia Hard cover, 774 pages, black and white photographs. Appendicies include Bibliography, Contest Results, Movies, Magazines, Music. Review Encyclopedic. Personal note : Internet and surfing, page 293, notes... sites for surf history (ledgenarysurfers.com, surfresearch.com.au) |
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| 1996
Werner, Doug : Longboarder's Start-Up : A Guide to Longboard Surfing Start Up Sports/Tracks Publishing 140 Brightwood Avenue, Chula Vista, California, CA 91910. 1996 Soft cover, 160 pages, black and white photographs, black and white photograph sequences, black and white illustrations, Glossary, Resources, Bibliography, Index. Review Longboard edition of Werner's Surfer's Start-Up : A Beginner's Guide to Surfing, 1993. See second edition, 1999, below. Intensive instructional book concentrating on basic and advanced manouvers. Design features are discussed in an interview with Bill Stewart and Henry Ford of Stewart Surfboards, pages 119 to 136. Classic longboarders may find Bob McTavish's Malibu Repetoire circa 1966 of interest... Bob McTavish is in this wave. He probably had a plan to get out of it. This copy, courtesy of Shoalhaven City Library. |
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| 2000
Williamson, Luke: Gone Surfing - The Golden Years of Surfing in New Zealand, 1950 -1970 Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand. 2000 Soft cover, pages, colour photographs, black and white photographs, various magazine, poster and advertising reproductions, Glossary, Thank You (Credits). Review Excellent early history of New Zealand boardriding with a healthy concentration on board design and manufacture. Unfortunately makes no account of prone craft and some interesting New Zealand designs such as the Levine (a hollow timber board available in kit form, circa 1959) and the Tinkler tail (1976, outside the historical parameters) are absent. |
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| 1979
Wilson, Jack Australian Surfing and Life Saving Rigby Limited, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia .,1979 Hard cover, pages, 29 colour photographs (plates), 75 black and white photographs, 7 black and white illustrations. Surfing photographs by Bruce Channon/Surfing World Review Attempt to fully cover Australian surf scene (surfboards, bodysurfing and Surf Life Saving) from a Surf Life Saving perspective, similar to White:Surfing above, but with a superior selection of photographs. Chapter 1- Development of the Sport, concentrates primarily on the Life Saving movement. Chapter 5 - Boardriding, is very basic : four pages of text, compared to seven pages for... Chapter 4 - Bodysurfing. Chapters 6 and 7- Hazards and Dangerous Sea Creatures, are probably the most extensive Australian analysis of these subjects available. Highlights : 1. The much reproduced ... A. Duke with solid wood board Wakiki circa1918 page 14. B.Duke at Freshwater Beach 1914. page 15. C. Snowy McAlister and board 1928 page 21. D. Lou Morath, Hawaii 1939, page 36. 2. Bodysurfing, Bondi 1912. page 24 3. Manly's Swordfish and North Steyene's Bluebottle, page 31. 4. N. Smith, Cooks hill circa 1923, riding hollow board, page 35. 5. Duke Kahanamoku and Australian Surf Team, Hawaii 1939, page 36. 6.Colour plates featuring Mark Richards, Rabbit Bartholomew, Terry Fitzgerald, others. Between pages 48 and 49. 7.Claude West and Surfoplane Manly Beach 1924 page 73. 8. Bondi, Autumn1930's, featuring bellyboard, hollow surfboard and surfskis, page 74. 9. Hollow board at Fairy Bower, page 77. |
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| 1980
Winter, Peter : 7o Years On Greenmount The Review |
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