That Oceanic FeelingA captivating memoir that explores the lure of the sea and the author's love affair with surfing. |
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... Australia Cataloguing - in - Publication entry : Capp , Fiona . That oceanic feeling . Bibliography . ISBN 1 74114 166 4 . 1. Capp , Fiona . 2. Authors , Australian - 20th century - Biography . 3. Novelists , Australian - 20th century ...
... Australia Cataloguing - in - Publication entry : Capp , Fiona . That oceanic feeling . Bibliography . ISBN 1 74114 166 4 . 1. Capp , Fiona . 2. Authors , Australian - 20th century - Biography . 3. Novelists , Australian - 20th century ...
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... Australia liked to promote itself as a surfing paradise , but surfers were a sub - culture still regarded with suspicion and bemusement by the mainstream . They were beach - bums , drop - outs , ragged- haired louts who spoke their own ...
... Australia liked to promote itself as a surfing paradise , but surfers were a sub - culture still regarded with suspicion and bemusement by the mainstream . They were beach - bums , drop - outs , ragged- haired louts who spoke their own ...
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... Australians at least , is the foreshore backdrop of firs and the grey shale on Bells Beach . Not a tea - tree or ochre ... Australian champion twice and state cham- pion too many times to mention . Apart from selling surfboards for Rip ...
... Australians at least , is the foreshore backdrop of firs and the grey shale on Bells Beach . Not a tea - tree or ochre ... Australian champion twice and state cham- pion too many times to mention . Apart from selling surfboards for Rip ...
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... Australia and outlying islands and reefs . A telling sign of the changing times were the epithets now used by the ... Australia in boats from Vietnam and Cambodia two decades ago . It reminded us of the dangerous odyssey that the ...
... Australia and outlying islands and reefs . A telling sign of the changing times were the epithets now used by the ... Australia in boats from Vietnam and Cambodia two decades ago . It reminded us of the dangerous odyssey that the ...
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... Australia , or locked up in bleak detention camps on the edge of the Australian desert . I had always regarded going down to the sea as a kind of secular baptism . But now I could not look at the ocean horizon , which was traversed by ...
... Australia , or locked up in bleak detention camps on the edge of the Australian desert . I had always regarded going down to the sea as a kind of secular baptism . But now I could not look at the ocean horizon , which was traversed by ...
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Andy arrived Australia back beach Bass Strait began Bells Beach beneath big wave big wave surfing blue boat Byron Bay canoe carpark catch caught chant civilisation cliff coast dream early Emma eyes father fear feet felt foam French Freud Gally Hawaii Hawaiian head idea of surfing island Jack Jack's Jan Juc John journey knew land lived looked loved Melbourne nearby never Newquay Night Surfing Pacific paddling paradise Peninsula Point Lonsdale Point Nepean Polynesian Port Phillip Port Phillip Bay Portsea Queenscliff realised reef riding rocks Russell sand seemed sense ship shore shorebreak side Sorrento Southern Ocean St Ives story surf breaks surf Corsair surf culture surf lifesavers surfboard surfers surfing's surge swell swimming Tahiti thing thought tide told took Torquay town voyage Waikiki Waimea walking wanted watching wetsuit wind writing young
References to this book
A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French ... Alice Garner Limited preview - 2005 |