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In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and
controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his
emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett
McNamara-affectionately known as GMac-set the world record for the
sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in
2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break.
Propelled by the challenge and promise of bigger, more difficult
waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner and polarizing figure travels
the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to
offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what
motivates McNamara to go to such extremes-to risk everything for
one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in
control or surrender? Personal and emotional, readers will know
GMac as never before, seeing for the first time the personal
alongside the professional in an exciting, intimate look at what
drives this inventive, iconoclastic man. Surfing awesome giants
isn't just thrill seeking, he explains-it's about vanquishing fears
and defeating obstacles past and present. Surfers and non-surfers
alike will embrace McNamara's story-as they have William Finnegan's
Barbarian Days-an its intimate look at the enigmatic pursuit of
riding waves, big and small. Hound of the Sea is a record of
perseverance, passion, and healing. Thoughtful, suspenseful, and
spiritually profound, McNamara reveals the beautiful soul of
surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring and devoted
disciples.
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