Surfing Books

… books for surfers in-between surfs

Wave-Finder Surf Guide Indonesia

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Larry Blair – Wave-Finder Surf Guide Indonesia Reviews of every surfing beach in Indonesia. This is a comprehensive guide covering every inch of every coast, a fantastic, one-of-a-kind, resource for surfers and vacations. Every full-color, pocket guide covers every inch of the [...]

Wave-finder Surf Guide Australia

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Larry Blair – Wave-finder Surf Guide Australia Reviews of every surfing beach in Australia. This is a comprehensive guide covering every inch of every coast, a fantastic, one-of-a-kind, resource for surfers and vacations. Every full-color, pocket guide covers every inch of the [...]

The Encyclopedia of Surfing

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU The Encyclopedia of Surfing – Matt Warshaw The Encyclopedia of Surfing chronicles nearly every bit of wave-riding–its history, places, mythology, champions, tragedies, in-jokes, and minutiae. Author Matt Warshaw, former editor of Surfer magazine, and his fellow researchers took three years to put [...]

Ben Marcus – The Surfboard

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Ben Marcus – The Surfboard: Art, Style, Stoke Surfer’s Journal, September 2007 “The Surfboard serves as a general catalog and survey of surf craft form the 20th century onwards.” Transworld Surf, September 2007 “It’s a cool look back at the most important [...]

Matt Warshaw – Photo/Stoner

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Photo/Stoner: The Rise, Fall, and Mysterious Disappearance of Surfing’s Greatest Photographer This book has some awesome photos of surfing back in the 60′s & 70′s.  As an x-so cal resident, I am amazed by how much California and surfing culture has changed [...]

Daniel Duane – Caught Inside

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Caught Inside: A Surfer’s Year on the California Coast Duane (Lighting Out, 1994) is a surf hound, doubtless, but he explores a whole lot more than great green rooms of tubular water in this testament to an obsession. The narrative starts with [...]

Allan C. Weisbecker – Cosmic Banditos

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU Cosmic Banditos This book is crazy.  It is hard to believe that the content of this book all happened to one person! Thousands of fans agree-Cosmic Banditos has been out of print for way too long. So here it is, back by [...]

Allan Weisbecker – In Search of Captain Zero

Buy from The Nile AU Buy from Amazon USA Buy from Amazon EU In Search of Captain Zero So this is my first official post and I am going to start with a somewhat controversial author. I have really enjoyed Allan C. Weisbecker’s books but some people think otherwise. Apparently there was some lawsuit a [...]