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Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers
Andrew Warren
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Description for Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers
Paperback. This book explores the world of surfboard making as a global industry. Based on researches, interviews in Hawaii, California, and Australia, this book constructs stories of challenges local, independent surfboard shapers encounter in the face of billion dollar, mass production surfing industry such as Billabong and Quicksilver. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 1MBF; 1MKPH; WF; WSSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing’s icon has been the surf- board—its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and wave. Based on research in three important surfing locations—Hawai‘i, southern California, and southeastern Australia—this is the first book to trace the surf- board from regional craft tradition to its key role in the billion-dollar surfing business.
Hawai‘i, California, and Australia are much more than sites of surfboard manufacturing. Their surfboard workshops are ... Read more
Over the last forty years, surfing has emerged from its Pacific islands origins to become a global industry. Since its beginnings more than a thousand years ago, surfing’s icon has been the surf- board—its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and wave. Based on research in three important surfing locations—Hawai‘i, southern California, and southeastern Australia—this is the first book to trace the surf- board from regional craft tradition to its key role in the billion-dollar surfing business.
Hawai‘i, California, and Australia are much more than sites of surfboard manufacturing. Their surfboard workshops are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824839437
SKU
V9780824839437
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Andrew Warren
Andrew Warren is a human geographer from Wollongong, Australia, who grew up surfing local breaks around his hometown. Chris Gibson is professor of human geography at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
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