Fierce Heart: The Story of Makaha and the Soul of Hawaiian Surfing

by Stuart Holmes Coleman

Book Overview

Fierce Heart is the biography of a community and a portrait of its people. Although Makaha is a small, isolated town on the Western coast of Oahu, it has produced some of the most intriguing Hawaiians of the twentieth century: world-class surfers Buffalo Keaulana and his sons Rusty and Brian; beautiful skin diver and surfing pro Rell Sunn; and larger than life singer and songwriter Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. What connects them is a love for their culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312384513
• ISBN13: 9780312384517
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"