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Of Wax and Sand and Peter Pan: Memoirs of just another Santa Barbara Guy
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ISBN10: 1706288689
ISBN13: 9781706288688
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 11 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.84 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781706288688
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 11 2019
Pages: 324
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.84 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Of Wax and Sand and Peter Pan is Mike Davis's intimate, rollicking memoir of surfboards, grit, love, and the eternal chase for perfect form-on water and in life. From his beginnings as a sickly Iowa farm boy to the sun-blasted shores of California and the surf breaks of Noosa Heads, Davis charts an extraordinary journey through the second half of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of a restless craftsman, philosopher, award winning author and surfer and 2016 inductee into the Surfboard Builder's Hall of Fame.
What begins as a tender, self-effacing recollection of childhood illness, love, and family gradually swells into a panoramic chronicle of innovation, counterculture, and self-discovery. Davis's story mirrors the evolution of modern surfing: from the handmade boards and secret Californian breaks of the 1960s, to the birth of the sailboard era, to shaping the future of wave-riding design itself. Each chapter is infused with the same kinetic energy that defines his life in motion-seeking balance between chaos and control, between the foam and the deep.
Davis recounts his trials with honesty and humor: the death of his first wife Christine, the love of his daughters, and the anchoring presence of Jo, his special girl. Alongside his personal odyssey runs a deeper reflection on humanity, creativity, and belonging-colored by his Lakota Sioux heritage and guided by the words of mentors, shapers, and surfers who forged the sport's golden age.
At seventy-three, Davis writes not as a nostalgic elder, but as a man still brimming with the wonder of a child staring at his first wave. His memoir becomes less a recounting of accomplishments-fifty thousand boards, eleven novels, world champions-and more a testament to curiosity, craftsmanship, and courage. Of Wax and Sand and Peter Pan is a love letter to surfing, to making, and to staying forever young at heart.
Davis recounts his trials with honesty and humor: the death of his first wife Christine, the love of his daughters, and the anchoring presence of Jo, his special girl. Alongside his personal odyssey runs a deeper reflection on humanity, creativity, and belonging-colored by his Lakota Sioux heritage and guided by the words of mentors, shapers, and surfers who forged the sport's golden age.
At seventy-three, Davis writes not as a nostalgic elder, but as a man still brimming with the wonder of a child staring at his first wave. His memoir becomes less a recounting of accomplishments-fifty thousand boards, eleven novels, world champions-and more a testament to curiosity, craftsmanship, and courage. Of Wax and Sand and Peter Pan is a love letter to surfing, to making, and to staying forever young at heart.
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