{"id":25429,"date":"2011-10-13T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25429"},"modified":"2011-10-14T22:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T05:29:22","slug":"chris-dixons-ghost-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25429","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dixon&#8217;s Ghost Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4DAADARrUNo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just when we thought we&#8217;d heard pretty much every story from the monster surf spot Cortes Bank comes word of journalist <strong>Chris Dixon&#8217;s<\/strong> upcoming book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Wave-Discovery-Cortes-Biggest\/dp\/0811876284\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1316716920&#038;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Wave<\/a><\/em><\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chroniclebooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle Books<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Dixon] recounts stories from <strong>Greg Long<\/strong>, <strong>Brad Gerlach<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Parsons<\/strong>, and a cadre of divers, explorers, sailors, nation builders, and lunatics who have all tried their luck at Cortes Bank and barely lived to tell of their encounters. This astounding true story of the Everest of the sea will captivate anyone with a curiosity about, and respect for, the vast and unknowable ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re almost more interested in reading about the history of the place, than we are to hear wild tales of surf bravado. And what&#8217;s more <strong>Sebastian Junger<\/strong> says <em>Ghost Wave<\/em> is a &#8220;beautifully researched and compellingly written book. I read it straight through from the first page. Terrifying.&#8221; Let&#8217;s just say we&#8217;re looking forward to reading it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Ghost Wave<\/i> goes on sale on Amazon in October, 2011. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Wave-Discovery-Cortes-Biggest\/dp\/0811876284\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1316717669&#038;sr=8-1\"><b>Click here to pre-order it<\/b><\/a>. Or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/warwicks.indiebound.com\/event\/chris-dixon\"><b>Warwick&#8217;s Booksk<\/b><\/a> in La Jolla, California  on October 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM or The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfingheritage.org\/\"><b>Surfing Heritage Foundation<\/b><\/a> in San Clemente on October 14, 2011 to hear Dixon read from the book live and in person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ghostwavebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost Wave<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when we thought we&#8217;d heard pretty much every story from the monster surf spot Cortes Bank comes word of journalist Chris Dixon&#8217;s upcoming book Ghost Wave from Chronicle Books. Here&#8217;s the story: [Dixon] recounts stories from Greg Long, Brad Gerlach, Mike Parsons, and a cadre of divers, explorers, sailors, nation builders, and lunatics who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25956,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions\/25956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}