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About Jamie Brisick

Jamie Brisick’s books include Dazzling Blue: Short Nonfiction; Becoming Westerly: Surf Champion Peter Drouyn’s Transformation into Westerly Windina; We Approach Our Martinis With Such High Expectations; and Have Board, Will Travel: The Definitive History of Surf, Skate, and Snow. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The Surfer’s Journal, and The New York Times. In 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles.

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

By Peter Heller
Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

With grit, poetry, and humor, Peter Heller, acclaimed author of 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...

Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles

By William McKeen
Narrated by Johnny Heller

Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy...

High Surf: The World's Most Inspiring Surfers

By Tim Baker

Inspiring stories from an eclectic cast of surfers 'tim Baker may well be the most brilliant and incisive surf writer working today, or on any givenday for the last twenty years.' worldprosurfers.com Leading surf journalist tim Baker has profiled the surfing world's most inspiring characters, encountered over two decades of surf writing, to highlight...

Stories from the surf

Untold stories from surfing's icons and pioneers

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Dive into the legends and lore that created a culture

“To be a surfer is to be a traveler,” writes former pro-surfer Jamie Brisick in the Scribd Original Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey.

As the tour guide through a series of stories (including his own) from surf luminaries and legends alike, Brisick takes readers on a breathtaking ride through intimate recollections of surfing life, from soul-searching and searching for the perfect wave to finding community across the globe. An impassioned voyage to destinations worldwide– including Teahupo’o in Tahiti, Pipeline at Oahu’s North Shore, Tavarua in Fiji, and Cape St. Francis in South Africa–Birth of The Endless Summer: A Surf Odyssey features the highs and lows of taking to the ocean. With reflections from surf pioneer Dick Metz and pro-surfers Rob Machado, Kassia Meador, Strider
“Raspberry” Wasilewski, Nathan Fletcher, and Derek Hynd, to name a few, this is an odyssey that everyone can revel in.

Featuring a foreword from award-winning director Richard Yelland, whose documentary Birth of The Endless Summer pays homage to Bruce Brown’s historic 1964 film The Endless Summer and focuses on Dick Metz as he vagabonds around the world between 1958 and 1961–a trip that would ultimately lead to his discovery of the renowned “perfect wave” at Cape St. Francis–this Scribd Original companion book, just like both films, continues the “dream adventure that allows you to write your own ending.”

Available June 28 as both an ebook and audiobook narrated by surfing legend Rob Machado.

About Richard Yelland

Born and raised in Laguna Beach, California, Richard Yelland is an Emmy-nominated director and award-winning documentary filmmaker known for powerful visuals and moving performances. He has written, produced, and directed such films as Birth of The Endless Summer (2021), Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce (2020), Between Two Harbors (2015), and 12 Miles North: The Nick Gabaldon Story (2012). His films have been recognized and awarded at festivals worldwide including Cannes Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Wavescape in South Africa, Impact Docs, Phoenix Film Festival, Edinburgh’s Edindocs, Maui Film Festival, Byron Bay International Film Festival, New York Festivals, the Telly Awards, and the Webby Awards, among others. Yelland was educated at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, and NYC’s School of Visual Arts, where he later taught.