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Title: Surfing Guide to Southern California by Bill Cleary, David H. Stern ISBN: 0-911449-06-X Publisher: Mountain & Sea Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is so cool
Comment: As a late 50's and early 60's surfer growing up in Imperial Beach, CA. I could have used this book on our excursions north to surfers paradise, take your pick, this book list them all. Gosh what can I say what a trip, I found my book at a flea market and paid 50 cents for it. I would pay easy for this book what they are asking for it. Original price 8.95 for my 2nd edition. If Ida only known. My son moved to Ventura last year and I loaned him the book and he was so jazzed. He found all the places mentioned and got to surf a lot of them. He wants me to win the lottery and move to Hollister ranch. I had forgotten about sneaking into Hollister back then. Awesome Surf and a very special little book. Thanks to the authers for a great trip down memory lane.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thanks to Surfers Everywhere for Appreciating Our Book
Comment: When Bill Cleary and I lived three houses away from each other at Topanga Beach and he began to write this book, we never dreamed that it would become the appreciated classic that it has. I simply want to thank the surfing public for having expressed their appreciation many times during the 40 years since we wrote it.
In 1998 Bill and I we brought out what we called the "35th Anniversary Nostalgia Edition." In 2002, when the first printing sold out, we reprinted it.
And then, on July 4, 2002, my friend Bill died. Of a heart attack. At age 64. He was the first surfer I ever saw (it was 1959), and he was then one of the fittest athletes I'd ever seen. The last 15 years of his life he had Parkinson's Disease, which destroyed his coordination and made his life hell. May he rest in peace.
But for me, life goes on. I now live in Jerusalem, Israel, and I don't surf much any more. In fact, even by my own minimalist definition of catching at least one wave per calendar year, I'm an ex-surfer, because I last went out in the year 2001.
When the present supply of books sells out, there will be no more reprintings.
Happy surfing!
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guide Book Ever Written?
Comment: I've probably spent more time with this book than any other, except for the Bible. That's because SURFING GUIDE is the Bible of surfing guidebooks. For me, it's more than nostalgia. I actually used it quite a bit when it first came out, and I found its information very accurate. Of course, since I've been away from the Pacific for lo these many years now, it has become essentially a nostalgia trip. And since the surfing scene is so different now than when it was written, unless you're a full-bore retro longboarder (and I know there're lots of you out there), it's probably almost per se an exercise in nostalgia. But don't let that put you off. Cleary and Stern are very clever fellows and shrewd observers. Their wry observations and sly sensibilities propel this book out of its homely little genre and into the vast ocean of truly great reads.
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Title: Surfing California by Bank Wright, Allan B. Wright ISBN: 0911449027 Publisher: Mountain & Sea Pub. Date: June, 1973 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:The Endless Summer ASIN: 6305837384 Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $11.24 |
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Title:Surf Crazy ASIN: 6305837376 Publisher: Image Entertainment Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $13.49 |
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Title: Pipe Dreams : A Surfer's Journey by Kelly Slater ISBN: 0060096292 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Learn to Surf by James MacLaren ISBN: 1558215689 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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