Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening
By: Liz Clark
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
True surfers understand that surfing is not a sport, a hobby or even a lifestyle. Instead, it is a …
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. Sailing Alone around the World
By: Joshua Slocum
4.15
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas—the first man to circumnavigate the world… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books w…"-Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
3. All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride
By: Jaimal Yogis
4.25
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this meditative memoir—a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton—t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
4. Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
By: Wallace J. Nichols , Celine Cousteau
3.80
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
This is your brain on water. There's something about water that attracts and fascinates us. No wond… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
5. The Long Way
By: Bernard Moitessier
5.00
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
6. Sailing a Serious Ocean : Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
By: John Kretschmer
4.53
Format: 194 pages,
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- biography
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7. Paddling North
By: Audrey Sutherland
4.18
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
In a tale remarkable for its quiet confidence and acute natural observation, the author of Paddling… read more
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- memoir
- adventure
- travel
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
8. Surf Is Where You Find It
By: Gerry Lopez
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of his generation, presents a collection of 41 profiles of t… read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
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9. Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
By: Jaimal Yogis
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a cop… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
By: None
4.00
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his… read more
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11. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship… read more
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12. Love with a Chance of Drowning
By: Torre DeRoche
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Love can make a person do crazy things. . . A city girl with a morbid fear of deep water, Torre DeR… read more
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13. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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14. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed someth… read more
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15. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Making Mavericks
By: Frosty Hesson
4.37
Format: 314 pages, ebook
West Coast surfing legend Frosty Hesson shares his remarkable life story, the story of his extraord… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"We all come from the sea, but we are not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again and again, until the day we don't come back leaving behind only that wh…"-Frosty Hesson, Making Mavericks
17. Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening
By: Liz Clark
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
True surfers understand that surfing is not a sport, a hobby or even a lifestyle. Instead, it is a … read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- womens
- outdoors
- nature
- audiobook
18. Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
By: Jedidiah Jenkins
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A moving meditation on the hidden, sometimes difficult topics we must consider to live an authentic… read more
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- biography memoir
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- nature
- audiobook
"I WAS ASKED recently, “Who is your best friend?"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"Being labeled is claustrophobic. It locks you into connotations."-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain."-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
"As I get older and listen to my life, the truest things seem to live in paradoxical tension. Hope holding hands with understanding. Expectation dancing with the hard lessons of humility. The human he…"-Jedidiah Jenkins, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are
19. Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow
By: Heather Hansman
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
*An Outside Magazine Book Club Pick * *Winner of the International Ski Association's Ullr Book Awar… read more
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- adventure
- nonfiction
- outdoors
- nature
- audiobook
20. The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902
By: Gordon Thomas
4.09
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
The spectacular story of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the Western Hemisphere: the 1… read more
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- audiobook
21. The Code: The Power of "I Will"
By: Shaun Tomson
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
How to convert the power of “I Will” into a life-changing mantra The twelve stories in this bo… read more
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