The Secret Surfer - Softcover

Gately, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786693917 ISBN 13: 9781786693914

Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Recovering from a hip replacement operation, and suffering from a mid-life crisis, Iain Gately sets out to catch a tube. This is no London underground train, but rather that evanescent space, beneath the lip of a breaking wave, that every surfer yearns to visit. In all his years of surfing, Iain Gately has never caught one., He realises it is now or never. His quest takes him to the Atlantic beaches of England's West Country, and to the sandbars and reefs of Galicia and the Canary Island. By turns funny, energetic and inspiring, The Secret Surfer is a tale of self-knowledge through endeavour, a beguiling blend of black humour, adventure and soul searching., Above all, it is a rousing call to all of us not to give up too soon.

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Críticas:

'Hugely enjoyable - fluent and jokey but also touching' Spectator.

'An ink-black sense of humour steers [Gately] through an enjoyable coming-of-late-age narrative' TLS.

Reseña del editor:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS.

The author, recovering from an operation to fit him with a titanium hip joint, sets out to catch a tube. This is no London Underground train, but rather that evanescent space, inside the unfolding wave, of which the surfer's dreams are made. The ultimate experience for the surfer is to ride inside a tube as it closes behind them. Most rides last between five and fifteen seconds; the record is thirty. In twelve years of surfing, Iain Gately has never caught a tube, but, before he gets old, he yearns to do so.

The Secret Surfer is an alternative travel book; an exploration of an activity that attracts loners, obsessives and eccentrics; a lyrical evocation of places in Cornwall, Galicia, Portugal, Andalucía, Morocco and Ireland; and a rousing call to all of us not to give up too soon. Gately's quest, whether it ends in triumph or in failure, will offer a similar mixture of introspection and adventure, of a search for self-knowledge and of physical endeavour.

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• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1786693917
• ISBN 13: 9781786693914
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304