Surfing Places, Surfboard Makers: Craft, Creativity, and Cultural Heritage in Hawai'i, California, and Australia

by Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson

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 surfboard--its essential instrument, the point of physical connection between human and nature, body and wave. To a surfer, a board is more than a piece of equipment; it is a symbol, a physical emblem of cultural, social, and emotional meanings. Based on research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824839439
• ISBN13: 9780824839437
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"