Surfing: A Beginner`s Guide has been the go-to surf book for beginners since 1996. This third edition, now with the endorsement of Surfing Engl&, takes you through all the vital steps to become a surfer: you will learn where to surf, when to surf & how to surf safely. You will learn the foundations such as choosing the correct equipment, which is essential to make any progress as a beginner; pre-surf preparation, including getting fit with tips & advice; & your first surfer steps on the beach & in the ocean. All these stages lead up to you catching your very first wave & the surfing bug. The sea is renowned for its beauty, but infamous for its dangers. Alf provides you with transferable skills to safely enjoy your new hobby. Safety features heavily in the book, & you will learn all the basic common-sense aspects of surfing that even the most experienced surfer forgets. ...

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- The Manual, over 50 top surfers bring you surfing's first ever skills & coaching manual, written by former Surfer
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Surfing: A Beginner’s Guide by seasoned surfer & award-winning journalist Alf Alderson takes you through all the essential steps; learn where & when to surf & how to surf safely. Discover the foundations such as choosing the correct equipment, essential to make any progress as a beginner; pre-surf preparation, including getting fit with tips & advice; & your first surfer steps in the beach & in the ocean. All of this leads you up to catching your first wave & hopefully catching the surf bug. This stunning new edition features the talents of rising surfer star Flynn Novak & one of the world’s top surf photographers, Sean Davey. Their combined efforts result in some breathtaking shots & mind blowing sequences in Hawaii. ...

Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel by professional longboarder Sam Bleakley, illustrated with stunning photographs by John Callahan. It takes surfing beyond the waves & packaged surf tourism to a wider sense of place & cultural identity. Sam travels from his birthplace in West Cornwall to Indonesia & the Philippines; through vibrant West African highlife in Ghana, to war-damaged Liberia; to Mauritania, where landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet; to a serene Buddhist oasis in Communist China; to Ecuador, Oman & Haiti, whose complex culture seeps into his psyche & captures his heart. He looks deep into the jet-black eye of a surfacing shark in Kenya, & faces a stacked set of foaming lips during typhoon surf in South Korea. Celebrating Thelonious Monk`s 1950s album Brilliant Corners, Sam explores how, like great jazz musicians, talented surfers use invention, complex rhythm, timing & spontaneity to turn impossible waves into beautiful & challenging music.` Surfing, ` he says, `has opened me up, split my skin, widened my horizons, & closed me down, because any obsession restricts your involvement in other aspects of life.` ...

Footprint's Surfing Britain & Ireland covers an extensive range of surfing spots & has been compiled by expert surf writer/photographer team, Chris Nelson & Demi Taylor. The guide

Includes:: all essential surf-breaks information, in addition to tips from Britain's top surfers & local experts, board advice from the UK

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The Haynes Surfing Manual is a complete introduction to this increasingly popular sport, covering history & culture, preparation, equipment, techniques, fitness, safety & travel. Clearly written by an enthusiastic & highly experienced surfer, & illustrated with superb diagrams & specially commissioned photographs, this is the perfect guide for anyone just beginning to surf as well as those who have already `got up`. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

The first dedicated English-language guidebook to an emergent & largely unspoiled ecotourist destination otherwise overlooked by the travel publishing industry. Peaceful & politically stable, Suriname is one of the world`s five most thinly populated countries. Its Caribbean coastline is famed for its peerless turtle-watching opportunities, while the interior is swathed by a vast tract of pristine Amazonian rainforest rich in wildlife & accessible only by air or along the tropical waterways that incise the interior. The guide will include a detailed introduction to the diverse wildlife & intriguing history of the only former Dutch colony in South America, along with detailed regional coverage of the tropical coastline, the historic inner city of the culturally diverse capital Paramaribo (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), & the thrilling opportunities for exploration afforded by the Upper Suriname River & elsewhere in the jungle-swathed interior. ...

Surinam at 1:720, 000 & French Guiana at 1:900, 000 from ITMB, with each country shown separately on one side of the map, indexed & accompanied by street plan (s) of central Paramaribo, Kourou & Cayenne. Bold altitude colouring shows the topography, with elevation in feet. Swamp & mangrove areas are marked & rivers show dams, rapids or falls. The maps present each country’s road & rail networks, plus airfields for access to the remote areas of the interior. A range of symbols indicates various places of interest & tourist facilities. Also shown are internal administrative boundaries with names of the provinces, plus the disputed border zones. Each map is indexed & has latitude & longitude lines at 1° (Surinam) or 30’ (Guiana). Large, clear street plans show the central areas of Paramaribo, Kourou & Cayenne, annotated with places of interest & selected accommodation. The Surinam map also Insets showing population distribution & rainfall. ...

Map No. 10084, Surnadal, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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