Surfing: The Ultimate Pleasure

Sumptuous large-format book on the sport's history and culture, written by former newspaperman Leonard Lueras of Honolulu and published in 1984 by New York's Workman Publishing. Lueras, a writer/editor who began surfing in California and moved to Hawaii in 1963, didn't break much new ground in Surfing: The Ultimate Pleasure, but his presentation was beautifully distilled and ordered, his analysis ...