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The world in the curl : an unconventional history of surfing / Peter Westwick, Peter Neushul.
- Title
- The world in the curl : an unconventional history of surfing / Peter Westwick, Peter Neushul.
- Author
- Westwick, Peter J.
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GV839.5 .W47 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Neushul, Peter
- Description
- x, 405 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Draws on decades of experience and the popular team-taught courses at the University of California at Santa Barbara to trace the cultural, political, economic and environmental aspects of surfing while evaluating the diverse range of influences that have rendered the sport a billion-dollar worldwide industry. --Publishers description
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-392) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The cradle of surfing -- The Duke, Dillingham, and the Waikiki dream -- The dark side of paradise : race and sex in Hawaii -- Inventing Surfurbia : surfing to California -- War and surfing -- The surf boom -- Charlie don't surf : surfing and counterculture -- Surfing turns pro -- Engineering the coast -- Beating the crowds, literally and otherwise -- Surf tech -- Surfing at the frontiers -- Women and surfing : from flappers to Roxy Girl -- From Waikiki to Wall Street -- The world in the curl.
- ISBN
- 9780307719485 (hbk.)
- 0307719480 (hbk.)
- 9780307719508 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- 0307719502 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012051071
- OCLC
- 826899295
- SCSB-11951139
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library