First-person narratives of big-wave surfing’s heaviest feats

128 pages - 245 x 200 mm

enhancing clarity and flavour

Number of pages: 224

Cedar Stringer

California Surfing And Climbing In The Fifties abel-to-archive First-person narratives of big-wave surfing’sThe story told by the photographs in California Surfing and Climbing in the Fifties takes place against the larger backdrop of postwar America: Truman and Eisenhower, the Korean War, the Cold War and the Red Scare. Young people were embracing new symbols of non conformity: Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Marlon Brando and James Dean. All along the California coast, surfing became popular as heavy balsa wood boards were replaced with lightweight ones