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Surf and Rescue - George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture (Hardcover)
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Surf and Rescue - George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Sport and Society
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The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to
Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth
taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a
modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a
destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places
Freeth's inspiring life story against the rise of the Southern
California beach culture he helped shape and define. Freeth made
headlines with his rescue of seven fishermen, an act of heroism
that highlighted his innovative lifeguarding techniques. But he
also founded California's first surf club and coached both male and
female athletes, including Olympic swimming champion and "father of
modern surfing" Duke Kahanamoku. Often in financial straits, Freeth
persevered as a teacher and lifeguarding pioneer--building a legacy
that endured long after his death during the 1919 influenza
pandemic. A compelling merger of biography and sports history, Surf
and Rescue brings to light the forgotten figure whose novel way of
seeing the beach sparked the imaginations of people around the
world.
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