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| 1968 Kahanamoku, Duke With Brennan, Joe: Duke Kahanamoku’s World of Surfing Angus and Robertson Publishers Sydney , Australia 1968 1972 2nd Edition A&R Paperbacks, Sydney , Australia Soft cover, 167 pages, 38 b/w photographs, 14 b/w illustrations, glossary, index Review Competent account of early surfing that becomes more lightweight as it moves into the sixties. Early photographs are interesting but illustrations and some text are lifted from Kelly: Surf and Sea (1965). His first visit to Australia is reported on pages 35 –36 and there is no mention of his return for the Olympics in 1956. The exhibition at Freshwater is merely noted as 1915. |
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| 1962 Kaler, W.F. (compiler): St Clair Surf Life Saving Club's Souvenir : 50th Anniversary 1911 - 1961 Otago Daily Times, circa 1962. Soft cover, 64 pages, black and white photographs. Review |
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| 1997 Kampion, Drew. Forward by Bruce Brown Stoked : A History of Surf Culture General Publishing Group Los Angles 1997 1998 Second edition Benedikt Tashen Verlag GmbH, Hohenzollernring 53, D-50672 Koin. 1998 Hardcover, 216 pages, 274 black and white/colour illustrations and photographs, Bibliography, Photo Credits, Index. Review This is an excellent book. The text covers a huge amount of information, yet Drew Kampion's seamless style makes for highly enjoyable reading. The selection of illustrations and photographs is excellent, many not previously published. As an historical resource, it is a wonderful companion work to Nat Young's The History of Surfing (1983). Only a pedant would quibble with the quality of this work. Errata/Omissions/Quibbles: 1.Photograph, Page 67 'Aussie surf cars of the late'50's, owned by cineatographer Bob Evans and friends' - actually 'John Arnold and his mates in South Australia', Nat Young The History of Surfing, page 91. 2.Photograph, page 106 'Bob McTavish at Long Reef in 1967' - sorry, headland does not look like Long Reef. 3. 'The Shortboard Revolution', pages 107 -108. - fails to mention the significant imput by Midget Farrelly 4. Photograph, page124 'North Shore stretch' -the surfer is Tom Carroll 5. Photograph, page 147 'Surf signage in Engand shows significant cultural penetration.' - actually Kings Cross, Sydney, Australia. 6. 'Simon Anderson and the Three-Fin Thruster' - No mention of the Mark Richards' Twin fin, the design that Simon Anderson was influenced by and supplanted. 7.'Nat Young and the Involvement School', page 107 - quotes re:'..two trains..' attributed to Bob McTavish, elsewhere attributed to Bob Cooper - can't find reference. |
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| 2003 Kampion, Drew. Forward by Bruce Brown The Way of the Surfer - Living it 1935 to tomorrow Harry N. Abrahams, Inc., Publishers 100 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 1001185 2003 Hard cover, 192 pages, extensive colour/black and white photographs, Index, Photography Credits, Acknowledgements. Review A selection of surfer profiles from Woody Brown (hence the 1935 of the title) to Kelly Slater. Despite much of the text being drawn from previously published work, there are several photographs that are possibly unique, A close readng of Dick Brewer and Gerry Lopez's alternate accounts of surfboard design circa 1967 to 1972 is very interesting. Drew manages to get his other fetish, Bob Dylan, into the book, twice. Similar format to... Matt Warshaw's : Above The Roar - Fifty Surfer Interviews (1997) Similar title to... Tom Adler : Surf Life 32 to 03 (2002) Similar title to... |
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| 2001 Kettle, Phil and Smith, Craig (illustrator): Too Cool- Surtfing Pro. Scholastic Education 345 Pacific Highway Lindfield NSW 2070, 2001. Soft cover, 43 pages, b/w illustrations, Quiz. Review Juvenile book, one of a series with a sporting focus, featuring the highly imaginative surfing exploits of Too Cool and his friend, Spike. |
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| 2014 Kenvin, Richard: Surf Craft- Design and the Culture of Board Riding MIT Press, Mingei International
Museum, San Diego, 2014.
Hard cover, 192 pages, colour illustrations, Acknowledgements, Bibliography. Review Richard Kenvin's thesis, that surfboards exemplify Soetsu Yanagi's philosophy of mingei, where a design's true beauty and purpose are revealed when it is put to its intended use, is highly questionable. While the text is historically accurate, Kenvin's analysis leaves much to be desired, exemplified by the annoying and consistent over-estimation of the contribution of Bob Simmons. While most of the interesting boards have previously been featured in other books, a large number of the boards, for example the contemporary designs by Carl Ekstrom, are largely impractical and unlikely to have any impact on progressive design, apart from their role as curiosities. The listing of surfresearch.com.au in the Bibliography is unfortunate. This copy made available for review by Ken Greives and Hugo, with sincere thanks. |
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| 1965 Klein, H. Arthur. Surfing J.B.Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York 1965 Third printing Hard cover, 283 pages, 75 black and white photographs, 42 black and white illustrations, Index. Review Well written, standard surfing text with extensive detail in some sections. The early history section establishes the important relationship between weight and floatation in relation to solid/laminated/hollow/balsa and foam boards. Sections R, S and T include detailed illustrations of various riding techniques and plans for a surfing simulator - pages 166 - 167. Other craft include mats - M, prone boards - N (very interesting), body surfing - O, skis, boats, dories, hasake, canoes - V, and wake surfing - W. A suprising number of photographs are sourced from Australia, particularly surf boats and skis, and several (and some illustrations) are reproduced from Pollard : The Surfrider, 1964. The Australian board riding photographs include a rare Midget Farrelly at Dee Why, page 186. The excellent photographs of Dr Don James are used throughout the book (including the cover), many have been widely reproduced. |
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| 1967 Klein, H. Arthur. Surfing J.B.Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1967. Third printing Hard cover, 283 pages, 75 black and white photographs, 42 black and white illustrations, Index. Review Well written, standard surfing text with extensive detail in some sections. The early history section establishes the important relationship between weight and floatation in relation to solid/laminated/hollow/balsa and foam boards. Sections R, S and T include detailed illustrations of various riding techniques and plans for a surfing simulator - pages 166 - 167. Other craft include mats - M, prone boards - N (very interesting), body surfing - O, skis, boats, dories, hasake, canoes - V, and wake surfing - W. A suprising number of photographs are sourced from Australia, particularly surf boats and skis, and several (and some illustrations) are reproduced from Pollard : The Surfrider, 1964. The Australian board riding photographs include a rare Midget Farrelly at Dee Why, page 186. The excellent photographs of Dr Don James are used throughout the book (including the cover), many have been widely reproduced. |
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| 1889 Knox, Thomas W. (1835-1896) : The Boy Travellers in Australasia Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Sociey, Samoan and Feejee Islands and Through the Colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. New York Harper & Brothers 1889. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. Charles Tuttle Co, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan. reprinted1971. Paul Flesch & Company, Melbourne.1971 Hard cover, 538 pages, one leaf of coloured plates, extensive black and white illustrations and maps. Review One of a series of juvenile world-wide travel books, with a large section on Hawaii. Originally published in 1888, for the Australian centenary celebrations. Includes a description of several surf board riders at Hilo who perform for payment, pages 31 - 32. - perhaps the first record of professional surfers? For extract see Surfing at Hilo. Accompanied by a woodblock Surfing at Hilo, see Dela Vega, page 24... First printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August - September , 1873, pages 382 - 402? Attributed to Commander William Bainbridge Hoff of the flagship California, it accompanied a two part article "Hawaii nei" by Chales Nordhoff. The article and woodblock (without credit) were subesquently reprinted in Nordhoff, Charles : Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Harpers & Brothers, N.Y. 1874. |
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1957
Jacket by Ben Feder, Inc.Kohner, Frederick: Gidget-
The Little Girl with Big Ideas
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1957) Hard cover, b&w illustrations Jacket photo by Ernest Lenart. Review Made into a classic film in 1959; starring Sandra Dee (Gidget), James Darren (Moondoggie), and Cliff Robertson (The Big Kahuna). Review by Nick Carroll Gidget- I wrote a little bit about this in support of my theory that in the area of fictional and/or literary endeavour, surfing usually only gives rise to cheese. This is great cheese, appalling, epic cheese, and has undoubtedly represented the surfing milieu to a greater number of (oh dear) baby-boomers than any other surfing related cultural expression, including Endless Summer. Gidget is massively and rightly ignored on the score of influence within the surfing hard core, but so what? (Tim Winton's) Breath is probably the best piece of fiction anyone will ever write about surfing, but it'll never overtake Gidget in the public recognition stakes. realsurf forum, Sunday Sep 19, 2010. http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/search.php?t=18006 Also see: Sally Field: Gidget, 1965. |
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| 1983 Kuhn, Charlie: Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club - The First 60 Years, 1923-1983. Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club, NSW, 1983 Soft cover, 74 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations, Membership and Executive Lists. Review . Extracts, see: Coffs Harbour SLSC History. |
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