Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results

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Overview

How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii—one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries—jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea?

 

In this brilliantly written travel adventure, journalist (and surfer) Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations—Israel and the Gaza Strip, West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco—to find out. Whether he is connecting eccentric surf legend Doc Paskowitz to the Arab-Israeli conflict, trying to deconstruct the terrorist bombing in a nightclub in Bali, or being chased by the German police while surfing a river break in Berlin, Moore masterfully weaves together politics, culture, history, and surfing to create a book like no other.

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Christopher Schoppa
…a lively global jaunt that will offer some surprises even for the heartiest of wave-riding experts.
—The Washington Post

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781605294278
  • Publisher: Rodale Press, Inc.
  • Publication date: 5/25/2010
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 610,549
  • Product dimensions: 6.48 (w) x 9.32 (h) x 1.08 (d)

Meet the Author

MICHAEL SCOTT MOORE is a novelist and journalist from California. He was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow in Berlin, where he currently works for Spiegel Online and writes a column for Miller-McCune Magazine. His first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Carroll & Graf in 2003. He's written on politics and travel for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and the Financial Times. He's also at work on a second novel.

Table of Contents

Author's Apology vii

Chapter 1 California and Hawaii: As Civilization Advances 1

Chapter 2 Indonesia: Bulé Bulé 33

Chapter 3 Germany: The Fun-Gesellschaft 67

Chapter 4 Morocco: Kilroy Was Here 95

Chapter 5 United Kingdom: English Incomers 137

Chapter 6 Israel and the Gaza Strip: Two Opposed Ideas 171

Chapter 7 Cuba: La Otra Revolución 217

Chapter 8 São Tomé and Príncipe: The Stern of an Old Canoe 249

Chapter 9 Japan: Plastics 283

Bibliography 319

Acknowledgments 322

Index 323

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