Surfing WA: Celebrating 50 Years
Margaret River Press
Margaret River Press
2nd October 2014
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
Hardback
232
Width 297mm, Height 210mm
The publication takes you on a historical journey through profiles of surfers, surfing families, events, locations and key industry and community leaders. Each section is supplemented by stunning photographs by award- winning surf photographer Russell Ord and other West Australian photographers, Chris Gurney, Mick Burnside and Nick Woolacott and archival photographs courtesy of Ric Chan, Jim King, Mick Marlin, Loz Smith and many others. The book pays tribute to indiviudal surfers such as Taj Burrow, Ian Cairns and Jodie Cooper; surfing families that include the Macaulay and Jakovich families; key players Bob Monkman, Ron Naylor, Keith 'Jock' Campbell; shapers King Cole Surfboards, Cordingley's and Hawke and industry leaders Creatures of Leisure, Gath Sports and Surfboard Room. Find out how Surfing WA went from humble, backyard beginnings to a highly professional organization that reaches over 250,000 Western Australians and millions of people interstate and overseas each year.
'This book is as much about the leadership provided by surfers over the past five decades as it is about the facts and anecdotes that make up the history of Surfing WA', Bob Welch OAM Chairman, Surfing WA