$24.36
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2011
Summary
Ride the Wave: Mick Fanning’s Journey to World Champ
Mick Fanning, at just 28, has experienced a lifetime’s worth of triumphs and tribulations. This is his inspirational story of overcoming incredible odds to reach the pinnacle of the surfing world.
How does it feel to lose a brother? To win a world title? To tear your hamstring muscle completely? To suffer from scoliosis so severe you can barely move? Mick’s journey has been a rollercoaster, and it’s the extreme highs and l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742750354 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742750354 |
| Author: | Mick Fanning, Tim Baker |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Ebury Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 23mm |
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“Tim Baker may well be the most brilliant and incisive surf writer working today, or on any given day for the last 20 years.”
“Tim Baker may well be the most brilliant and incisive surf writer working today, or on any given day for the last 20 years.” –worldprosurfers.com
About The Author
Mick Fanning
Tim Baker is a freelance writer based in Currumbin, Queensland, Australia. He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines, and co-author of “Bustin’ Down The Door,” the biography of surfing champion Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew. He has also edited and contributed to an anthology of Australian surf writing, “Waves - Great Stories From The Surf,” and wrote “High Surf,” which profiles the world’s most inspiring surfers. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, GQ, Inside Sport, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Bulletin magazine, The Australian Way, Playboy, as well as surfing magazines around the world. He has received the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Media Award and been shortlisted for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards. His last book was the mega-successful OCCY, written with surfing legend Mark Occhilupo.
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