Cocaine and Surfing
an outrageous expose
$24.36
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2019
Summary
White Lines and Wave Faces: Surfing’s Secret Addiction
For readers of SCAR TISSUE, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, MP: THE LIFE OF MICHAEL PETERSON and OCCY: THE RISE AND FALL OF MARK OCCHILUPO.
There is an allure about surfers - they look like clean, bronzed athletes who love nature and tread lightly on the earth. But there has always been a darker side to surf culture. Chas Smith, ex-war correspondent and surf enthusiast, tells the no-holds-barred love affair of cocaine and surfi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733638718 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733638716 |
| Author: | Chas Smith |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 18mm |
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Critics Review
a fascinating expose of surfing’s untold story - GQ Australia
Effortlessly shifting from the profound to the profane … A boozy and often funny investigation into a little-understood corner of America. - Kirkus Reviews on WELCOME TO PARADISE, NOW GO TO HELLhis storytelling is taut; he leaps from person to person, from seaside mansion to inland shack, from history to history, sometimes all on the same page and in ways that slice deep. - Wall Street Journal on WELCOME TO PARADISE, NOW GO TO HELLwell-written and extremely funny - Sunday TerritorianAbout The Author
Chas Smith
Chas Smith is a regular contributor and editor at large at Surfing Magazine, and has also contributed to Vice, GQ, Blackbook, Stab, the New York Times T Magazine and BeachGrit.
The first to surf mainland Yemen, Osama Bin Laden’s ancestral homeland, directly after 9⁄11, he’s written about fashion in Somalia, debauchery in Azerbaijan and terrorists in India. In 2006, Smith covered the conflict between Israel and Lebanon and was kidnapped by Hezbollah.
His first book, Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell, was published in 2013 in Australia by Black Inc.
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