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Kimball
Taylor’s Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
is receiving stellar reviews from nearly every major surf
publication and has struck a cord with international travelers. |
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“The
essence of the surfing experience is not rooted in the simple
act of riding waves, but in the pursuit of them, and everything
that comes with those journeys. Taylor understands this better
than anyone.”
—Chris Mauro
Editor of Surfer magazine |
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“Kimball’s
fiction is a delightful mixture of mysticism, inspiration and
cold, harsh reality. Just like surfing itself.”
—Evan Slater
Editor in chief for Surfing magazine |
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“Having
sprung fully formed as a bright, spade-calling contributor to
Surfer magazine in the ’90s, Kimball Taylor has since
built a reputation as a trusted voice to those who matter most—his
fellow surfers.”
—Scott Hulet
Editor of The Surfer’s Journal |
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“This
is a seriously cool book of surf stories by one of the world’s
best surf writers.”
–South Africa’s Zigzag magazine |
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“Kimball
Taylor has stepped out entirely with the recent publication
of Return by Water, a series of surf stories that at
their essence tell us more about why we live as surfers than
how we do it.”
–Brad Melekian, Surfer magazine |
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“The
writing is far more mature than Taylor’s few years. It
is good. In fact, it is very good and filled with insight into
a life lived by the ocean.”
–Chris Ahrens |
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by
Kimball Taylor • Dimdim
Publishing © 2005
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Excerpts
from Return by Water
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someone the rare treat of surf adventures from Tahiti,
Indonesia, Ecuador, Africa, and more—the journey
is as transforming as any surfer’s first trip away
from home. |
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Surf Stories and Adventures
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| From the big-wave surfers
of Tahiti and the salty hurricane chasers of New England,
to the cliffs of Molokai’s infamous leper colony and
the Wild Coast of South Africa’s Transkei Homeland,
Return by Water brings light to surfers’ lives around
the world with amazing sense of place and deft character portraits
of the famous, ordinary and irascible surfer alike. Follow
surf journalist Kimball Taylor on his travels through South
Africa, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, Hawaii, French Polynesia,
Indonesia and more. The journey is as transforming and definitive
as any surfer’s first trip away from home. |
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Biography |
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| Kimball
Taylor has been scolded by a leper; robbed in Peru; nearly
duped by a Balinese transvestite; riddled by malarial mosquitoes
in Ecuador; attacked by baboons in Africa; and mocked, browbeaten
and harangued by great and not-so-great surfers around the
world. A senior writer for Surfer magazine, Taylor also contributes
to various other surf publications. He holds a bachelor’s
degree in journalism and is currently a candidate for a master’s
in creative writing at San Diego State University. This is
his first collection of stories. |
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