Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by Heller, Peter

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors recounts...
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Author: Peter Heller
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Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave by Heller, Peter

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

$30.44

Kook: What Surfing Taught Me about Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave

$30.44
Author: Peter Heller
Format: Paperback
Language: English
With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of The River and The Whale Warriors recounts his remarkable journey of discovery--of surfing, an entirely new challenge; of the ocean's beauty and power; of the strange surf subculture; of love; and, most of all, of how to seek adventure while crafting a meaningful life.

Author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Dog Stars
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Literature

Having resolved to master a big-hollow wave--that is, to go from kook (surfese for beginner) to shredder--in a single year, Heller travels from Southern California down the coast of Mexico in the company of his girlfriend and the eccentric surfers they meet. Exuberant and fearless, Heller explores the technique and science of surfing the secrets of its culture, and the environmental ravages to the stunning coastline he visits.

As Heller plumbs the working of his own heart and finds joy in both love and surfing, he affords readers vivid insight into this fascinating world, with all of its perils and pleasures, its absurdity and wonder. Exhilarating, entertaining, and moving, Kook is a love story between a man and his surfboard, a man and his girlfriend, a not-so-old man and the sea.

Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 07/13/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.63w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780743294201


Award: National Outdoor Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2010 pg. 96
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2010

About the Author
Heller, Peter: - Peter Heller is an award-winning adventure writer and long-time contributor to NPR. He is a contributing editor at Outside magazine and National Geographic Adventure and the author of Hell or High Water: Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He can be reached at PeterHeller.net.

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