Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results by Michael Scott Moore

Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results

Michael Scott Moore

328 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction sociology sports travel adventurous informative slow-paced
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An elegant and surprising history of surfing that examines its cultural influence in some of the most unexpected placesHow did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii--one that was nearly eliminated on its home islands by Christian mission...

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