Cultured Travel Guide Books - In Search of Captain Zero : A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road |
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.00090490922
EAN: 9781585420698
ISBN: 1585420697
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2001-03-19
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date: 2001-03-15
Studio: Tarcher |
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Summary: I don't even surf
Comment: I picked up this book after having read the fictional "Cosmic Banditos". It's the mind-boggling road diary of Weisbecker's trip off the grid. He sells off his life, grabs his dog and surfboards, and heads out with no real direction other than 'south'. His funny, relaxed writing evokes a storytelling session around a campfire on the beach.
This is the kind of audacious drop-out from society that most of us will only dream about. After cringing at some of Weisbecker's more harrowing adventures, some of us will be glad we never took the leap. The story takes an uncomfortable turn when Captain zero is finally found, a turn which may cement your commitment to staying safely on the grid.
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Summary: Makes me dream about the beach life
Comment: Anyone who is nostalgic about surfing, the beach, women, friends and the passage of time should read this book. It is hard to believe how well written it is. There are many interesting, sad and funny stories in the book. The scene about the large wave hitting their small beach house in Hawaii actually had me, dare I say, laughing out loud. I'm now reading the book a second time after a one year hiatus, and enjoying it just as much (a good activity until I can get back to the beach!).
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Summary: A Head-On Collision Between Endless Summer And Electric Koolaid Acid Test
Comment: There's nothing like a surfing trip to Costa Rica with flashbacks to drug dealing days to make for a great literary achievement.
The book may be $10.00, but the chapter on "The Boat" is priceless! I've bought at least 10 copies to give to my friends to read. It is a true classic.
How this book has gone this long without being made into a movie is incomprehensible.
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Summary: Excellent thought provoking and fun read
Comment: This book appealed on so many levels. Want a good surf adventure, you got it. Like a nice travelogue, it hits there too. Want an excellent character study, absolutely. If you want to shake your head while laughing out loud, you get that here also. It was a book that was fun and yet thought provoking, strongly recommended.
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Summary: in search of captain zero
Comment: A very different kind of surfing story. For those that that are into surfing and travel it's pretty cool. It's a good adventure surfing story. I started reading it on an island in Panama durring a surf trip which gives me a different perspective. It definetly made me want to keep traveling/surfing. For the non surfing types, I have no idea how it would be recieved....
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A chronicle of surfer and photojournalist Weisbecker's two-year journey south from the Mexican border to solve the mystery of a friend's disappearance.
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his lifelong surfing companion, Christopher, who had vanished into the wilds of Central America. Weisbecker traveled south from Mexico through seven countries before discovering his friend in a primeval rain forest, living a shockingly corrupt antithesis of their mutual dream of an Endless Summer perfect-wave paradise.
Intimately describing the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding Christopher, In Search of Captain Zero is the story of Weisbecker's quest. This rollicking memoir of friendship and adventure is one part Road Fever and one part Heart of Darkness: a nonstop tale of territorial local surf-gang wars and all-gear-and-no-skill European dilettantes, of daring sea rescues, twentieth-century piracy, and a jungle road trip to the place that lies beyond the end of the road.
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