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    Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
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    Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
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    Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth

    By Chris Dixon

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    Rising from the depths of the North Pacific lies a fabled island, now submerged just 15 feet below the surface of the ocean. Rumors and warnings about Cortes Bank abound, but among big wave surfers, this legendary rock is famous for one simple (and massive) reason: this is the home of the biggest rideable wave on the face of the earth. In this dramatic work of narrative non-fiction, journalist Chris Dixon unlocks the secrets of Cortes Bank and pulls readers into the harrowing world of big wave surfing and high seas adventure above the most enigmatic and dangerous rock in the sea. The true story of this Everest of the sea will thrill anyone with an abiding curiosity of and respect for mother ocean.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChronicle Books Digital
    Release dateOct 21, 2011
    ISBN9781452110097
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    Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth
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    Chris Dixon

    Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anarchist organizer, writer, and educator who recently received his PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Dixon’s writing has appeared in periodicals such as Clamor, Left Turn, Punk Planet, and Social Movement Studies, and book collections such as Global Uprising (New Society Press), Letters from Young Activists (Nation Books), Toward a New Socialism (Lexington Books), Men Speak Out (Routledge), and The Battle of the Story for the Battle of Seattle (AK Press). He is currently completing a book based on interviews with radical organizers across the U.S. and Canada focusing on anti-authoritarian politics in broader-based movements. Dixon serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti.

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    • 5/5
      Wow. What a fantastic book. Definitely not a Just a surf book, nor do you need to be a surfer to appreciate it. This is a fascinating account of a sea mount 100 miles off shore of California and a history of those who have tried to explore it, a crazy cast of characters who tried to Claim it/ colonize it in the 60’s and finally it is about a small subset of surfers who have surf it.
      This is a look inside a world most people will never encounter with plenty of first hand accounts f what is is like to surf on 60 foot waves, and why they do it.
      Best of all the author is a hell of a good writer and storyteller.