Surfing Florida : a photographic history
Title:
Surfing Florida : a photographic history
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Publication Information:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014].
Physical Description:
viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Part I: Unlikely origins -- Florida surfing origins / Scott Edwards -- Unlikely beginnings -- Florida's maritime history / Mark long -- Creating the Sunshine State / Fred Fejes -- Part II: The regions -- Miami and Broward County -- Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast -- The Space Coast -- Daytona and New Smyrna Beach -- Northeast Florida -- The Emerald Coast, Florida's panhandle -- The southern gulf -- Part III: Florida and surfing's international dimensions -- Travel and wanderlust -- Expatriates -- Shapers and the surfboard industry -- Religion and surfing's spiritual core / Bron Taylor -- The right to surf / Tom Ankerson -- Competitions -- Land, sea, and air / Craig Snyder -- Florida surf rock, then and now / James E. Cunningham.
Abstract:
This book offers a lively and well-researched visual history of Florida surfing--its origins, its people and personalities, its innovations, its deep influence on the sport's international reach.
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