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Lost Coast:, The | 
 enlarge | Author: Drew Kampion
Creator: Jeff Peterson
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 746321
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 199
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1586852140
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.5
UPC: 082552021405
EAN: 9781586852146
ASIN: 1586852140
Publication Date: March 12, 2004
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! Has a publisher remainder mark. 2004 Hardcover.
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"My arms and shoulders were on fire, and I was feeling lightheaded and numb. Every time I broke over a wave, there was another one outside. I was way past my second wind and my third, but I kept paddling, mechanically, flat on my board under the glare of the sun, white spots now sparking into my vision, breathing rapid and hollow, and still the waves kept coming, and the sounds of their cracking and curling overlaid the steady rumble behind me and-every once in a while, woven into the work of the sea-there was a shard of conversation . . . voices drifting through it all, coming from somewhere out in the kelp, like the music of my delirium . . . voices like spirits standing at the gates, the words fragmented, indecipherable, but forming in my hallucinating consciousness a recurring phrase: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE EATEN!'"< BR> - The Lost Coast: Stories from the Surf< BR> The Lost Coast: Stories from the Surf is a collection of eighteen stories that offer a rare and raw glimpse into surf life-from sliding into cold, stiff neoprene at 4 AM to experiencing the ecstasy of a curling cresting wall of water.< BR> With pacing that ranges from a swift smooth paddle to a gnarly ride, these stories-most of which have been published over the past thirty years-capture the spirit that gave rise to a culture of surf on the "sweet and ragged wild edge of beauty."< BR> "Drew Kampion is the only American surf writer who kept my interest during the period when I was World Champion-what everyone else was saying made me just want to look at the pictures. Drew's writing has always been an excellent barometer on the state of our tribe."< BR> - Nat Young, 1966 World Champion and four-time longboard champ< BR> Drew Kampion is a former editor of Surfer, Surfing, Wind Surf, and Wind Tracks magazines. He founded, edited, and published the award-winning Island Independent, and is the author of the best-selling titles Book of Waves and Stoked! A History of Surf Culture. Drew continues to write for magazines dedicated to the surfing life, as well as others. He is married with two children and lives on an island in Washington State. < BR> Jeff Petersen was raised and resides in northern California. He is an artist with an incredible amount of respect and love for the ocean and art; he feels lucky to combine these two interests in his work on The Lost Coast: Stories from the Surf. This is his first book.< BR>
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 A full wave spectrum June 24, 2007
The Lost Coast offers up a great selection of short stories. There is straight-ahead fiction here: Kampion's evocations of pre-shortboard-era California sessions are particulary vivid and imbued with the spirit of coming-of-age stoke. But there is much more. The styles and forms range to allegory, dystopian future ("Eyesight"), and creation myth. Kampion takes risks, and pulls them off. "Heart of Stone" centers on the creation and use of a traditional Hawaiian koa olo, spanning three generations at the turn of the 18th to the 19th centuries. "A Wave in Search of the Perfect Surfer" depicts the life of a North Pacific swell from the wave's point of view. Good stuff.
The State of the Tribe May 26, 2007
Nat Young said it best:
"Drew Kampion is the only American surf writer who kept my interest during the period when I was World Champion-what everyone else was saying made me just want to look at the pictures. Drew's writing has always been an excellent barometer on the state of our tribe." - Nat Young, 1966 World Champion
Although his new one, "Greg Noll", is a doozey and a must-read, and "Stoked!" is the definitive historical record, "The Lost Coast" remains my favorite Kampion surf-book. Pick it up, go to virtually any of the stories, and you'll get a literate, occasionally profound take on The Life.
 reminds me of experimental college-writing January 13, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of the few books in my lifetime, that I have not finished reading. I simply could not suffer another drug-trip description of the sort that fledgling writers in college creative-writing classes pander about. It was shocking that so many of these stories where even published!
I forced myself to keep reading, mainly through a love of surfing and the fact that I was camped in Baja with nothing else to do in the morning. I should have saved my money and spent it on wax instead. Finally, I relinquished my pride and put the book down.
 CooupleOfGoodYarnsHere April 14, 2006
Not a bad book. Consisting of a variety of "surfer's yarns" ranging from the ludicrious to the doubt-right dangerous. Each "yarn" is short & sharp, but some of them are a bit of a bore or just to in-depth to really enjoy. It is the type of book you can leave in the glovebox of the car and pull out to read while you're stopped off having a bite to eat between surf sessions.
cosmic dude March 14, 2006
i felt a bit like the guy who doesn't do the acid at the party .
some great insightful and wise stories
and some trippy 'smoked to much weed with those mushies' stories.
i love kampion's style
just this one not quite my taste
if your a voddo child of the 60's you'll love it
peace
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