Wolfe is gone now, and so is the closed community he portrayed. Today, surfing in San Diego is for teenage girls and their mothers, middle-age guys, prosperous golfers, and the IT guy and the friends ...

The Register Book Club is reading surf memoir “Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life and Catching the Perfect Wave” by Peter Heller. Heller, an aventure and outdoors writer, tells how he dealt ...

Is there any other sport in the world, in which the established participants, are as critical and intolerant towards the beginners of said sport than surfing? Surfers – at least those who have been ...

At age 45, Peter Heller was unmarried and questioning his life’s path. In the throes of a midlife crisis, he and a buddy decided to — what else? — learn to surf in California. Then there was a second ...

“Kook” is a book that will certainly leave readers who are looking for a captivating story satisfied and glad that they decided to give this book a try. But, “Kook” does have a few hiccups that are ...

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Residents of the tiny Tahitian village of Teahupo'o say they are considering more protests to stop Olympic organisers building a three-story aluminium tower on a reef where the ...