The View from the Shoulder
a portrait of scottish surfing
$45.32
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
31 October 2025
Summary
The View from the Shoulder: A Surfing Portrait of Scotland
The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream in spite of the cold, from Neva MacDonald-Haig and the coffin-lid surfers of Machrihanish, who first took to the waves off the west coast in the 1930s with a little help from a local undertaker, to Andy Bennetts and the pioneers of the 1960s, who discovered many of the nation’s best breaks, to contemporary big wave surfer Ben Larg, a native of the tiny …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913759247 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913759245 |
| Author: | Roger Cox |
| Publisher: | Birlinn General |
| Imprint: | Arena Sport |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 31 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Roger Cox
Roger Cox has been writing about surfing in The Scotsman since 2005 and has contributed a weekly outdoors column to the paper since 2009, majoring on surfing, skiing and snowboarding but also taking in everything from climbing and kayaking to spear-fishing and long-distance paragliding. He has been the paper’s arts editor since 2013 and in 2020 he won Innovation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for establishing the Scotsman Sessions - a series of video performances recorded by artists all around Scotland, introduced by Scotsman arts critics.
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