Under the Wave at Waimea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Under the Wave at Waimea write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2021. Under the Wave at Waimea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From legendary writer Paul Theroux comes an atmospheric novel following a big-wave surfer as he confronts aging, privilege, mortality, and whose lives we choose to remember.
Stealing the Wave
Stealing the Wave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stealing the Wave write by Andy Martin. This book was released on 2008-12-01. Stealing the Wave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A classic tale of sporting rivalry' Observer 'The tales are gripping ... surfing emerges as a dangerous, solitary and potential fatal obsession' Telegraph 'A fascinating glimpse into obsession' Independent A gripping true story of a tragic and bitter rivalry in the world of surfing Winter. Mid-eighties. Hawai'i. Two surfers are battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, home to the biggest waves in the world. Old-school, and some say too old, Ken Bradshaw commands respect with his fearlessness and fearsome temper. Mark Foo is the new kid on the block. Icon of the younger generation, this photogenic Chinese-American wows the crowds with his lightning repertoire of cool moves. One perfect day at Sunset Beach, Foo audaciously steals a wave from under Bradshaw's nose, sparking a bitter feud that is to last for over ten years and end in tragedy.
Clark Little
Clark Little - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clark Little write by Clark Little. This book was released on 2022-04-05. Clark Little available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Instagram sensation Clark Little shares his most remarkable photographs from inside the breaking wave, with a foreword by world surfing champion Kelly Slater. “One of the world’s most amazing water photographers . . . Now we get to experience up-close these moments of bliss.”—Jack Johnson, musician and environmentalist Surfer and photographer Clark Little creates deceptively peaceful pictures of waves by placing himself under the deadly lip as it is about to hit the sand. "Clark's view" is a rare and dangerous perspective of waves from the inside out. Thanks to his uncanny ability to get the perfect shot--and live to share it--Little has garnered a devout audience, been the subject of award-winning documentaries, and become one of the world's most recognizable wave photographers. Clark Little: The Art of Waves compiles over 150 of his images, including crystalline breaking waves, the diverse marine life of Hawaii, and mind-blowing aerial photography. This collection features his most beloved pictures, as well as work that has never been published in book form, with Little's stories and insights throughout. Journalist Jamie Brisick contributes essays on how Clark gets the shot, how waves are created, swimming with sharks, and more. With a foreword by eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater and an afterword by the author on his photographic practice and technique, Clark Little: The Art of Waves offers a rare view of the wave for us to enjoy from the safety of land.
The Lower River
The Lower River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lower River write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 2012. The Lower River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A taut, tense, darkly suspenseful novel about a man who flees to Africa after his marriage falls apart, only to be caught up in a precarious situation in a seemingly benign village.
Picture Palace
Picture Palace - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Picture Palace write by Paul Theroux. This book was released on 1978. Picture Palace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her archives in preparation for a triumphant retrospective, the resurrected images unleash a flood of suppressed memories -- of her extraordinary life, her celebrated subjects, and the dark, painful secret at the core of her existence.
