Big Surf, Deep Dives and the Islands [Hardcover]

Ricky Grigg (Author), Ricky Grigg (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: Editions Ltd (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0915013207
• ISBN-13: 978-0915013203
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,134,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mind over reading matter, February 10, 2000

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Joseph W. Hlebica (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Surf, Deep Dives and the Islands (Hardcover)

I recently had the honor of meeting Ricky at a conference on ocean science at the Scripps Instituion of Oceangraphy where I work as a writer and where Grigg was a grad student. Ricky is a true hero; rare these days, and I believe one of the last of the genuine Great Watermen of the '60s. If I could climb inside a book and live there, this might just be it!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bodacious Geographer Evidences Surfing Savoir-Faire, April 16, 1999

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Paul F. Starrs "geography fan" (El Cerrito, CA, and Reno, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Surf, Deep Dives and the Islands (Hardcover)

It's not just that Ricky Grigg (aka Richard Grigg) is a world-renowned expert in the geography, formation, and function of coral reefs. It's that he happens also to be a nearly life-long surfer, and this book is a perfect example of bringing passion to one's practice of geography (and consensual relations; the title is an exquisite double-entendre). There are some wild turns.

It's a beautiful book, and one also consumately energetic. The color plates show someone who has lived in Hawai'i through the modern evolutions of surfing. That he did it as a famed scholar is all the more amazing. This is a better book that Kary Mullis's autobiographical tome (*Dancing Naked in the Mind Field*) -- and were I asked, as a betting man, to wager on who's the better surfer, I'd settle on the esteemed Prof. Grigg in the proverbial New York minute. A majorly fine read.