A Brief History of Surfing

Matt Warshaw, the former editor of Surfer magazine, has become the sport's foremost historian, his incredible depth of knowledge expressed in the wide-ranging online Encyclopedia of Surfing — a one-man, nonprofit, ad-free archive of a kind that exists for no other sport. For those who just want to dip a toe into the warm and tubular waters of surf culture, A Brief History of Surfing is the way to go.