Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
Return by Water
Surf Stories and Adventures
Acclaim for Return by Water:
The essence of the surfing experience is not rooted in the simple act of riding waves, but in the pursuit of them, and everything that comes with those journeys. Taylor understands this better than anyone. - Chris Mauro, Editor of Surfer magazine
Having sprung fully formed as a bright, spade-calling contributor to Surfer magazine in the '90s, Kimball Taylor has since built a reputation as a trusted voice to those who matter most - his fellow surfers. - Scott Hulet, Editor of The Surfer?s Journal
San Diego, Calif. - July 28, 2005 - Kimball Taylor's long-awaited collection of surf travel stories "Return by Water" featuring pieces on Tahiti, Africa, Ecuador, Indonesia, Hawaii, Brazil and more was released to the surfing world this week. The collection represents the finest of Taylor's travel writing for Surfer magazine and The Surfer's Journal as well as never-before-published stories on modern-day Bali and South Africa?s Transkei Homeland. The book also includes an eight-page black-and-white photo insert that captures images from Taylor's travels.
Return by Water's release immediately garnered acclaim from widespread surf media. Of Taylor's writing Surfing magazine's editor, Evan Slater, wrote, "A delightful mixture of mysticism, inspiration and cold, harsh reality. Just like surfing itself." And Surfer magazine Managing Editor Brad Melekian wrote, "Kimball Taylor has stepped out entirely with Return by Water, a series of surf stories that at their essence tell us more about why we live as surfers than how we do it."
From the big-wave surfers of Tahiti and the salty hurricane chasers of New England, to the cliffs of Molokai's infamous leper colony, Return by Water brings light to surfers' lives around the world with amazing sense of place and deft character portraits of the famous, ordinary and irascible surfer alike. The journey is as transforming and definitive as any surfer's first trip away from home.
Return by Water can be purchased at http://www.ReturnbyWater.com.
Kimball Taylor has been scolded by a leper; robbed in Peru; nearly duped by a Balinese transvestite; riddled by malarial mosquitoes in Ecuador; attacked by baboons in Africa; and mocked, browbeaten and harangued by great and not-so-great surfers around the world. A senior writer for Surfer magazine, Taylor also contributes to various other surf publications. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and is currently a candidate for a master's in creative writing at San Diego State University. This is his first collection of stories.
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Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
Written by Kimball Taylor
Eight-page black and white photo insert
Pages: 160
Price: $14.00
Publication date: September 2005
ISBN: 0-9765381-0-5
Dimdim Publishing
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