Now I discovered this project (book and website) a couple of years back and just realized they changed the website to a blog, which is reason enough to try and make you aware of Legendary Surfers.

Very thorough reading, from various knowledgable people. Just reading the free articles will keep busy and well informed about the history of surfing. I guess a complete historical overview is obtained through buying the book or the PDF-files.

John Severson book Surf Fever.

And in limited (1000) edition Taschen published the Leroy Grannis book, which is really gorgeous!

I know the image says “sold out”, but I still saw them in several stores, in Berlin that is.

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Surf Fever at Amazon

Leroy Grannis at Amazon