Death water

Softcover. English. Fontana. 1983. 252pp. In fair condition. The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death - and one of Marsh's most vivid and dramatic novels When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play about it. But then a murder takes place, a boy is attacked, the glove is stolen. Could it be that oil and water don't mix? Inspector Roderick Alleyn is determined to find out.

"Detective Storm van der Merwe and Andreas Moerdyk are back in this brand-new thriller by Irna van Zyl, author of Dead in the Water. " " 10-14 working days lead time "

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Kerry Greenwood Publisher Poisoned Pen Press Release date 20181024 ISBN 1-4642-0780-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4642-0780-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The Pilgrim Press is pleased to re-introduce the Looking Up series of 24-page, 5.5" by 5.5" booklets. The four best-selling titles are ideal for times that call for contemplation or prayer, whether for times of difficulty and worry or for times of joy and happiness. More in-depth than a greeting card, each booklet will help you find the right words...a caring thought...a comforting reflection to communicate compassion in extraordinary ways. Features Summary The Pilgrim Press is pleased to re-introduce the Looking Up series of 24-page, 5.5" by 5.5" booklets. The four best-selling titles are ideal for times that call for contemplation or prayer... Author Doris Stickney Publisher The Pilgrim Press Release date 20040131 Pages 23 ISBN 0-8298-1624-0 ISBN 13 978-0-8298-1624-2

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days After a water bug suddenly leaves her pond and is transformed into a dragonfly, her friends' questions about such departures are like those children ask when someone dies. Features Summary After a water bug suddenly leaves her pond and is transformed into a dragonfly, her friends' questions about such departures are like those children ask when someone dies.. Author Doris Stickney Publisher The Pilgrim Press Release date 19990101 Pages 26 ISBN 0-8298-1180-X ISBN 13 978-0-8298-1180-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'There are few things on earth smaller than this country.'Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the west of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. She falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose codes she struggles to crack. And then, in the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course. Years later, in the aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? And how do we know when we've found our place in the world? When Light is Like Water is at once a gripping story of passion and ambivalence and a profound meditation on the things that matter most: the definition of love, the value of family and the meaning of home. Features Summary 'There are few things on earth smaller than this country.'Alice, a young American on her travels, arrives in the west of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments - except to her beloved mother... Author Molly McCloskey Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20170529 Pages 224 ISBN 0-241-97820-3 ISBN 13 978-0-241-97820-7

Used book in good condition (2013) A terrified, frozen child is found close to death on an icy Cape Town mountainside. But no-one reported her missing. Where does she come from? Who does she belong to? Profiler Dr Clare Hart is baffled - but when a young woman disappears, Clare sees a frightening pattern beginning to emerge. Rosa is a gifted but troubled young cellist, and her grandfather is at his wits end. Why did she walk out of her music school that day? Where has she gone now? As winter tightens its grip, Clare must find Rosa and unravel her secrets... all the while carrying a secret of her own.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The heart-pounding story of rowing expert Mick Dawson's most challenging feats on the open water, culminating in his greatest achievement: crossing the North Pacific Ocean in a small rowboat. Storms, fatigue, equipment failure, intense hunger, and lack of water are just a few of the challenges that ocean rower MICK DAWSON, endured whilst attempting to complete one of the World's "Last Great Firsts." In this nail-biting, man-against-nature true story, Dawson, former Royal Marine Commando, Guinness world record ocean rower and high seas adventurer, takes on the Atlantic and ultimately the North Pacific Oceans. It would require three attempts and a back breaking voyage of over six months to finally cross the mighty North Pacific for the first time. 189 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes rowing around the clock, fighting death and destruction every step of the way before finally arriving beneath the iconic span of the Golden Gate Bridge with his friend and rowing partner Chris Martin. Dawson details his epic adventures propelling his tiny boat one stroke at a time for thousands of miles across the most hostile route of the greatest ocean on earth, overcoming failure, personal tragedy and all of the challenges mother nature could throw at him. Features Summary The heart-pounding story of rowing expert Mick Dawson's most challenging feats on the open water, culminating in his greatest achievement: crossing the North Pacific Ocean in a small rowboat... Author Mick Dawson Publisher Center Street Release date 20170801 Pages 256 ISBN 1-4789-4751-9 ISBN 13 978-1-4789-4751-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Obsessed with bodies of water and haunted by a chorus of mysterious ladies, the unnamed protagonist desperately searches for what is real and what is a dream. A deep and vivid exploration of the passageway between life and death, "The Mayflies" is a lyrical and haunting look at loneliness, isolation, and moving on. Sara Veglahn is the author of two chapbooks, "Another Random Heart" (2009) and "Closed Histories" (2008). She holds an MFA from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a PhD from the University of Denver, and has also taught creative writing at Regis University and Naropa University. She lives in Denver, Colorado. Features Summary Obsessed with bodies of water and haunted by a chorus of mysterious ladies, the unnamed protagonist desperately searches for what is real and what is a dream... Author Sara Veglahn Publisher Dzanc Books Release date 20140502 Pages 150 ISBN 1-938103-77-7 ISBN 13 978-1-938103-77-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days `[A] brilliantly imagined novel about love and desperation, set in an astonishing new world... utterly gripping' Karin Slaughter, International bestselling author of The Last Widow The world is mostly water when Pearl is born. The floods have left America a cluster of small islands with roving trade ships and raiders. Pearl knows little of her father Jacob and elder sister Row, who left her mother Myra when she was pregnant with her. Between them they make do, with Myra fishing and trading to make ends meet, travelling from island to island on Bird, the boat Myra's grandfather made before he died. Whilst their life is a tranquil one, Myra still aches for the daughter she once lost. When a chance encounter reveals that Row might still be alive, Myra packs up six-year-old Pearl and together they begin a dangerous voyage to The Valley, where rumours of violence and breeding ships run rampant. Along the way they encounter death and strangers, finally finding solace on board Sedna - full to the brim with supplies and an able crew - where Myra feels like she might be closer to finding Row than she has ever been. But to get to Row she will have to deceive everyone around her, betraying the trust of those she's come to love, and ask herself if she's willing to sacrifice everything and everyone for what might be nothing at all. Features Summary `[A] brilliantly imagined novel about love and desperation, set in an astonishing new world... utterly gripping' Karin Slaughter, International bestselling author of The Last Widow The world is mostly water when Pearl is born... Author Kassandra Montag Publisher The Borough Press Release date 20190919 Pages 400 ISBN 0-00-831955-3 ISBN 13 978-0-00-831955-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks--a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out. After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys' birthday, but neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the boys without a trace. Ranging in age from eleven to sixteen, the boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team. When water unexpectedly inundated the cave, blocking their escape, they retreated deeper inside, taking shelter in a side cavern. While the world feared them dead, the thirteen young souls survived by licking the condensation off the cave's walls, meditating, and huddling together for warmth. In this thrilling account, ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman recounts this amazing story in depth and from every angle, exploring their time in the cave, the failed plans and human mistakes that nearly doomed them, and the daring mission that ultimately saved them. Gutman introduces the elite team of volunteer divers who risked death to execute a plan so risky that its American planners admitted, "for us, success would have meant getting just one boy out alive." He takes you inside the meetings where life and death decisions were grimly made and describes how these heroes pulled off an improbable rescue under immense pressure, with the boys' desperate parents and the entire world watching. One of the largest rescues in history was in doubt until the very last moment. Matt Gutman covered the story intensively, went deep inside the caves himself, and interviewed dozens of rescuers, experts and eye-witnessed around the world. The result is this pulse-pounding page-turner that vividly recreates this extraordinary event in all its intensity--and documents the ingenuity and sacrifice it took to succeed. Features Summary From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the dramatic story that gripped the world: the miracle rescue of twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks--a pulse-pounding page-turner by a reporter who was there every step of their journey out... Author Matt Gutman Publisher Newbury House Publishers,U.S. Release date 20181119 Pages 448 ISBN 0-06-291071-X ISBN 13 978-0-06-291071-4

 At 10 am on 15 June 1972, the 19-ton, 43-foot schooner Lucette, sailed by a Scottish ex-farmer and his family, was attacked by killer whales in the Pacific, and sank in 60 seconds. What happened after that is the subject of one of the most astounding survival stories ever to be told.  In an inflatable rubber raft, with a 9-foot fiberglass dinghy to tow it, Dougal Robertson and his crew of five - his wife, 18-year-old son and 12-year-old twin boys, and a student friend - decided to make for the coast of Costa Rica, 1000 miles and an estimated 50 days away.  They had emergency rations of food and water for only three days, a handful of random items salvaged from Lucette, and no maps or compass or instruments of any kind.  Steering by the sun and stars, they set course for the Doldrums. A ship passed near them by failed to see their flares, leaving them to face death from thirst, starvation and exhaustion.  But they did not die.  Their raft sank under them and still they did not die.  Cramped together in their tiny dinghy with only six inches of freeboard, they clawed a space for themselves in the savage ecology of the ocean, on constant alert against 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, and numerous other hazards, through rain, storm, calm and equatorial heat.  With knowledge as their primary weapon, love as their bond, courage and self-sacrifice became a way of life, as mile after mile these six humans in the vast reaches of the Pacific refused to admit defeat. Hard cover, fairly good condition, with dust jacket.  The book shows some signs of wear, and foxing.  223 pages.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet Era The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning. Gorych and his driver, rolling through water, sand and snow on an empty petrol tank; the occupant of a black airship, looking down benevolently as he floats above his Fatherland; young Andrey, who leaves his religious community in search of a new life; and Kharitonov, who trudges from the Sea of Japan to Leningrad, carrying a fuse that, when lit, could blow all and sundry to smithereens. Written in the final years of Communism, The Bickford Fuse is a satirical epic of the Soviet soul, exploring the origins and dead-ends of the Russian mentality from the end of World War Two to the Union's collapse. Blending allegory and fable with real events, and as deliriously absurd as anything Kurkov has written, it is both an elegy for lost years and a song of hope for a future not yet set in stone. Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk Features Summary A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin Author Andrey Kurkov (Author), Boris Dralyuk (Translator) Publisher MacLehose Press Release date 20170613 Pages 352 ISBN 1-84866-606-3 ISBN 13 978-1-84866-606-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days The epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the nation's favourite storyteller, now available in paperback.For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn't just a holiday. It's an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them - things like the death of Will's father.And to begin with, it seems to be just what they both needed. But then Oona, the elephant Will is riding on the beach, begins acting strangely, shying away from the sea. And that's when the tsunami comes crashing in, and Oona begins to run. Except that when the tsunami is gone, Oona just keeps on running.With nothing on his back but a shirt and nothing to sustain him but a bottle of water, Will must learn to survive deep in the jungle. Luckily, though, he's not completely alone...He's got Oona. Features Summary The epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the nation's favourite storyteller, now available in paperback. Author Michael Morpurgo Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20100715 Pages 347 ISBN 0-00-726702-9 ISBN 13 978-0-00-726702-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize`The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don't mind at all if you forget this.The important thing is that I don't.'On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead's life changed for ever.Her four-year-old boy was paddling peacefully at the water's edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son's life - then drowned before her eyes.When Decca and Tony first met a decade earlier, they became the most improbable couple in London. She was an award-winning Guardian journalist, famous for interviewing leading politicians. He was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug-dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did. Until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy.Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, ALL AT SEA is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other's lives and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. Features Summary Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize`The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist... Author Decca Aitkenhead Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20160407 Pages 240 ISBN 0-00-814214-9 ISBN 13 978-0-00-814214-8

BLACK FRIDAY 2017 - 10% OFF ALL BOOKS WON ON AUCTION ON FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2017! Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism Axel-Ivar Berglund Published by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd (1975) "This ethnographic classic describes and analyzes the ritual cycle celebrated by Zulu kinship groups as understood and interpreted by the Zulu themselves." 12 years fieldwork led to this 1976 study of the ritual cycle of Zulu birth, maturity, marriage, sickness & death, diviners, "heaven-herds", ancestors, witchcraft, medicines; south africa zulus zululand african tribes zulu tribal customs zulu witchcraft diviners african religion zulu. Poor condition with water damage to the back. PLEASE CHECK IMAGES FOR CONDITION Follow Eleven O'Clock on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ElevenOClockAfricanaBooks/   Conditions: Please read conditions before bidding. NON PAYING WINNING BIDDERS - Please do not bid on an item unless you intend on completing the transaction. NEGATIVE feedback will be posted for non paying winning bidder Postage will be quoted according to the size of the item. Please do not make a cash deposit at the bank. If you must, please add on R50 for the deposit fee. If more than one item has been ordered, postage may be reduced. Books will be posted after payment has cleared in my bank account. Once an item is posted I will not be held accountable for the item, but will help where I can. Items sent and not collected at the Post Office and that are sent back to me will have to pay postage again. if this is not done with 1 month the item will be relisted Overseas buyers to have postage quoted. Please note I do not have PayPal or credit card facilities. Save

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, and sewed garments and decorative cloths for church. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually coming to have a career as an artist and to befriend the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Far from self-pitying, the portrait that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a gifted writer whose talent remained hidden for far too long. Features Summary The extraordinary, posthumously published memoir in letters of a Colombian artist whose writing was championed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Author Emma Reyes (Author), Daniel Alarcon (Translator), Daniel Alarcon (Introduction by) Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson Release date 20170824 Pages 192 ISBN 1-4746-0659-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4746-0659-2

There & Back is the autobiography of Eddie Daniels, who was born in South Africa, District Six, in 1928. Because of his opposition to apartheid as a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa and the African Resistance Movement, he was banned, detained, imprisoned, and banned again. Facing a possible death penalty he refused to be witness for the state or give undertakings to two supreme court judges who were prepared to negotiate with the National government for his release from prison.Price: R180.00Self-publishedYear: 2002ISBN: 0620267860Condition: Soft cover in good condition. Slight water damage to inside of front coverPg: 264

  Hoberman Collection, 2003. Soft covers.. Book Condition: Very good. Namibia, Gerald Hoberman, Marc Hoberman. 35 pp. English.   Gerald Hoberman is a master of the art of photography and, with his son Marc, has produced a fascinating portrait of Namibia. Their lenses roam widely as they scan the environment to capture the essence of the subject under scrutiny. The results are sheer poetry: the wondrous shapes of the Namib Desert, its dunes, gravel plains and mountains rendered in rich colors of apricot and lavender, copper and honey.a flock of flamingos flying across Sandwich Harbor lagoon, casting stippled shadows on the water below.and the fog-shrouded Skeleton Coast - 'the coast of diamonds and death' - where ships come to grief in a capricious sea. Gerald and Marc train their lenses on the reed-fringed waterways in the Caprivi and Okavango regions, the wildlife kingdom of Etosha National Park and the frolicking seals crowding the desert beaches. Their photographs also reflect the diversity of the country's people, from the San, whose predecessors left a priceless treasury of art on rocks and cave walls, to the pastoral Himba, the 'ochre people' who live in the rugged Kaokoveld. The European influence does not escape the photographers' viewfinder either. Namibia was once part of the German empire and, as the photographs show, the colonial ambiance still pervades the capital city and smaller towns. Gerald and Marc ventured into Namibia's heart and emerged with a remarkable synthesis of images and words that reflect the harsh beauty, primordial grandeur and rich diversity of this extraordinary land.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days 'Fast, tense, thrilling - and timely: this will happen one day. Highly recommended' LEE CHILD 'A dazzling debut' Marcel Berlins, The Times THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER PUBLISHED IN 15 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE A 21ST-CENTURY HIGH-CONCEPT DISASTER THRILLER *************************************** Tomorrow will be too late. A cold night in Milan, Piero Manzano wants to get home. Then the traffic lights fail. Manzano is thrown from his Alfa as cars pile up. And not just on this street - every light in the city is dead. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electricity grids collapse. Plunged into darkness, people are freezing. Food and water supplies dry up. The death toll soars. Former hacker and activist Manzano becomes a prime suspect. But he is also the only man capable of finding the real attackers. Can he bring down a major terrorist network before it's too late? ************************ 'Part Dan Brown-style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut-a bestseller in Germany-will get people talking' - Booklist US Features Summary Highly recommended' LEE CHILD 'A dazzling debut' Marcel Berlins, The Times THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER PUBLISHED IN 15 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDEA 21ST-CENTURY HIGH-CONCEPT DISASTER THRILLER ***************************************Tomorrow will be too late. Author Marc Elsberg Publisher Black Swan Release date 20170302 Pages 435 ISBN 1-78416-189-6 ISBN 13 978-1-78416-189-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours 'The most magical book about the African bush since Born Free' Daily Mail Francoise never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a game reserve but after Lawrence's death, Francoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn't take orders from a woman and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd's feisty new matriarch Frankie didn't like her. In this heart-warming and moving book, Francoise describes how she fought to protect the herd and to make her dream of building a wildlife rescue centre a reality. She found herself caring for a lost baby elephant who turned up at her house, and offering refuge to traumatized orphaned rhinos, and a hippo called Charlie who was scared of water. As she learned to trust herself, she discovered she'd had Frankie wrong all along... Filled with extraordinary animals and the humans who dedicate their lives to saving them, An Elephant in My Kitchen is a captivating and gripping read. Features Summary A powerful, moving sequel to the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer that tells the story of one woman's fight to protect a herd of elephants. Author Francoise Malby-Anthony (Author), Katja Willemsen (Author) Publisher Sidgwick & Jackson Release date 20180726 Pages 324 ISBN 1-5098-6489-X ISBN 13 978-1-5098-6489-8

*Signed* 1st Edition.Africa - In The Footsteps of the Great Explorers - Kingsley Holgate Book is in VG Condition. No tears, folds etc..Pages clean crisp and white!! Fans of Kingsley Holgate and his wild adventures, tackled fearlessly with his wife Gill and son Ross and a varying band of expedition members, will relish this series of epic exploits. Always game to venture where many before him have feared to tread, Kingsley and his entourage have set out to honor those tough, courageous early explorers of the African continent. David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, Frederick Courtney Selous, John Hanning Speke and others all faced starvation, fever and often death to open up Africa to the Western world. Like these brave and tenacious individuals, the Holgate party tackle mighty rivers such as the Nile, Congo, Rovuma and Ru ji, negotiating angry rapids, thrashing with crocodiles and startling territorial hippos. Circumnavigating Africa's greatest lakes - Niassa, Victoria and Tanganyika - they battle demonic high winds and water, and endure the blistering furnace of the desolate lava-bouldered Jade Sea's shores. These are tales of such daring, courage and endurance that it is impossible for readers to tire of the Holgate family's high adventures. The adventures are illustrated with photographs, line drawings and historical maps.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Becoming Europe's most successful and respected big-wave surfer is one thing. Coming from a small town in Northern Ireland to do so is another. This is Alastair Mennie's story...Surfing looks like fun. And it is. But in recent years, the world's so-called 'big wave surfers' have raised the bar to insane new heights. Put aside the Beach Boys and carefree, sunny California - a new breed of surfer is travelling to the ends of the earth in pursuit of waves the size of buildings. And among them, an unassuming 6ft 6' Irishman. Slater; Hamilton; Parsons; and, Gerlach - and now Mennie. For all of these men, the consequences are severe. The decisions in the water are life and death: '...the wave exploded on me, splitting my glass fibre helmet and ragdolling me for what seemed like an eternity in complete darkness...' Alastair, when things went wrong, Sligo, Ireland Dec 2009. This generation has witnessed a quiet revolution in Irish surf. Al Mennie personifies that picture. His is an honest and ego-free account of what it takes to surf waves that are big enough to sink ships. Before Mennie, Northern Ireland had no history of big wave surfing. He was the pioneer. The fact that he would become the first European to compete at the World Tow-In Surfing Championships in Chile makes his story all the more remarkable. This book tells of his big wave exploits at Half Moon Bay, Madeira, Nelscott in Oregon and Alastair's now infamous life-threatening encounter with 60 foot waves off the Sligo coast in the winter of 2009. Surf talk is cheap. In this book, the waves do the talking. Features Summary Before Alastair Mennie, Northern Ireland had no history of big wave surfing. He was the pioneer. The fact that he would become the first European to compete at the World Tow-In Surfing Championships in Chile makes his story remarkable... Author Alastair Mennie Publisher Alastair Mennie Release date 20100501 Pages 208 ISBN 0-9565039-0-X ISBN 13 978-0-9565039-0-9