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Surf Nation - Alex Wade~A new British and Irish surf book has just hit the stand - Surf Nation by Alex Wade.

An intelligently written tour of the UK and Ireland with featuring some of country's top surfers and underground chargers, Surf Nation takes in the Atlantic, English Channel and North Sea surf spots. It also explores the paradoxes of an activity which celebrates alternative lifestyles but finds itself accused of selling out to the marketing men; and which cannot seem to decide whether it is an art, a sport or a way of life for an exclusive minority.

Entertaining, revealing and well written and researched, Surf Nation finds that surfing is emblematic of a fundamental human drive, one as alive in the chill of the Atlantic as the warmth of the Pacific: the drive to accept the siren call of the ocean.

Published by Simon & Schuster UK. 340 page (paperback)

£12.99 including postage to the UK & Europe.~~Surf Nation - Alex Wade|9|~873~875~~