Surfing Earth’s Mythic Islands

Hardcover — Full-color coffee table edition
220 pages. First edition 1978. Rev edition 2019.

Publisher: Pelagic Meridian House

A lavish, large-format exploration of the world’s most legendary surfable islands: lost atolls, cinematic lairs, and places that might never have existed if they had not been discovered, surfed, and photographed.

Includes archival charts, academic essays, and wave studies that blend into one indispensable field guide to surfing Earth’s mythic coastlines.

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“A jaw-dropping triumph of oceanic photography and cultural storytelling. Every page feels like opening a lost atlas washed ashore from another century.”
— Tide & Terrain Quarterly

“A coffee-table epic. The level of detail is absurdly good — lush imagery, rare cartographic plates, and essays that carry the reader from reef to ridge with equal grace.”
— Coastal Aesthetic Review

“If you love surf history, design, or the romance of the open ocean, this volume is essential. It’s the kind of book people ‘borrow’ and mysteriously never return.”
— Blue Horizon Journal