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The Secret Surfer

The Secret Surfer

by Iain Gately
Paperback
Publication Date: 17/12/2018

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An alternative travel book about the author's quest to achieve his surfing dream before it's too late.

The author, recovering from an operation to fit him with a titanium hip joint, sets out to catch a tube. This is no London Underground train, but rather that evanescent space, inside the unfolding wave, of which the surfer's dreams are made. The ultimate experience for the surfer is to ride inside a tube as it closes behind them. Most rides last between five and fifteen seconds; the record is thirty. In twelve years of surfing, Iain Gately has never caught a tube, but, before he gets old, he yearns to do so.

The Secret Surfer is an alternative travel book; an exploration of an activity that attracts loners, obsessives and eccentrics; a lyrical evocation of places in Cornwall, Galicia, Portugal, Andalucia, Morocco and Ireland; and a rousing call to all of us not to give up too soon. Gately's quest, whether it ends in triumph or in failure, will offer a similar mixture of introspection and adventure, of a search for self-knowledge and of physical endeavour.

ISBN:
9781786693914
9781786693914
Category:
Travel & holiday guides
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
17-12-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x20mm
Weight:
0.21kg
Iain Gately

Iain Gately was raised in Hong Kong and studied law at Cambridge. He is the author of La Diva Nicotina, Drink and Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work. He lives in Dorset.

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