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Surfing Australia: Complete History Of Surfboard Riding In Australia

The Surfing Australia: Complete History Of Surfboard Riding In Australia is a book definitive guide to Australia’s surfing history that is published in conjunction with Surfing Australia. Australian surf culture is over a century old and it still hasn’t grown up from it’s roots as an forbidden sports to its current existence as a professional sport, surfing’s enduring appeal has always been the carefree, quintessentially Australian lifestyle that goes with it. Australian surf culture has always competing impulses of chaos and order. For every Boot Hill Gang, there is a Surf Life Saving Association. For every tragic drug disqualification, a World Title winner. From Tommy Tanna, Alick Wickham and Freddie Williams’s pioneering surf lifestyles to the hedonism of 1950s beach culture, the Coolangatta Kids of the 1970s, to the eventual professionalised machine that surfing in Australia has now become, this is the complete, no-holds-barred history of both sides of the story. With forewords by Mark Richards and Layne Beachley, Australia’s World Champion surfers, this book is the definitive history of surfing in Australia.

Author:Phil Jarratt

ISBN:9781742700205

Binding:Hard