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Moore, Michael Scott.
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Moore, Michael Scott.
Moore, Michael Scott -- Travel.
Surfing.
Surfing -- United States -- History.
Surfing -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Sweetness and blood : how surfing spread from Hawaii and California to the rest of the world, with some unexpected results / Michael Scott Moore.
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Moore, Michael Scott.
Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2010.
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797
.32
M823s
Subjects
Moore, Michael Scott -- Travel.
Surfing.
Surfing -- United States -- History.
Surfing -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN:
9781605294278 (hc.)
1605294276 (hc.)
Alternate title:
How surfing spread from Hawaii and California to the rest of the world, with some unexpected results
Description:
viii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index.
Contents:
California and Hawaii : as civilization advances -- Indonesia : bule bule -- Germany : the Fun-Gesellschaft -- Morocco : Kilroy was here -- United Kingdom : English incomers -- Israel and the Gaza Strip : two opposed ideas -- Cuba : La otra revolucion -- Sao Tome and Principe : the stern of an old canoe -- Japan : plastics.
Summary:
"In this brilliantly written travel adventure, journalist and surfer Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations —Gaza, West Africa, North England, Berlin, Bali, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to give the reader a folk history of surfing. This is a personal sketch for any curious reader of how the modern sport moved around the world and mingled with cultures that either have nothing to do with Hawaii or have strong reasons to resist pop silliness from the First World. The result is the story of hippies, soldiers, nutcases, and colonialism; a checkered history of the spread of Western culture in the years after World War II."--Book jacket.
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