Nazaré: Life and Death with the Big Wave Surfers - Softcover

Majendie, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1802795812 ISBN 13: 9781802795813

Verlag: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction, 2024

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Nazaré delves into the lives of a select band of surfers who gather in this small Portuguese fishing village with one aim: to surf the biggest wave ever recorded.

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Matt Majendie is a sports correspondent for the Evening Standard and has twice been nominated in the Sports Journalist of the Year Awards. He spent a season immersed in the world of Nazaré's surfing community, gaining unrivalled access to the most key and colourful names.

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JOIN THE QUEST TO SURF THE BIGGEST WAVE IN HISTORY.

In a small fishing village on the coast of Portugal, a select band of surfers take unimaginable risks, pushing the boundaries of their death-defying sport as they seek to go bigger than ever before. Their goal? To ride the Everest of the ocean - the 100-foot wave.

Journalist Matt Majendie is welcomed into the inner circle of Nazaré's tight community of big-wave surfers and extreme thrill-seekers, living among them for a season as he chronicles their incredible highs and terrifying lows.

Follow the endeavours of Britain's leading big-wave surfer, a former plumber from Devon, Andrew Cotton trailblazing Brazilian female surfer Maya Gabeira and current World Record holder German Sebastian Steudtner, as well as many other, this is a gripping read and a modern classic of sports writing.

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• Verlag: Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1802795812
• ISBN 13: 9781802795813
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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