
Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood welcomes Michael Scott Moore to the store for the paperback release of Sweetness and Blood on Wednesday, June 1st at 7pm.
How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii - one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries - jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea? In this brilliantly written travel adventure, journalist (and surfer) Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations - Israel and the Gaza Strip, West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco - to find out.
Michael Scott Mooreis a novelist and journalist who has written on politics and travel for publications such as the Atlantic, Slate, Spiegel online, Miller-McCune Magazine, and theFinancial Times. He lives in Berlin, Germany.
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results (Paperback)
By Michael Scott Moore$16.99ISBN-13: 9781609611408
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Rodale Books, 5/2011