Sweetness and blood
Subtitle: how surfing spread from Hawaii and California to the rest of the world, with some unexpected results
By: Michael Scott Moore
Publisher: Rodale; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781605294278
Subjects: Travel; Surfing; History
Description: Offers a folk history of surfing after World War II, while documenting the author's visits to such destinations as West Africa and Cuba, and describes the roles played by such contributors as Christian missionaries and colonials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: California and Hawaii : as civilization advances; title: Indonesia : bulé bulé; title: Germany : the fun-gesellschaft; title: Morocco : Kilroy was here; title: United Kingdom : English incomers; title: Israel and the Gaza Strip : two opposed ideas; title: Cuba : La otra revolución; title: São Tomé and Príncipe : the stern of an old canoe; title: Japan : plastics.