Over a two-month, three-state travel, Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku revolutionised perceptions of browsing and swimming, and adjusted perpetually the path of fifteen-year-old Isabel Letham’s lifestyles. while the charistmatic Duke choices a standard Aussie woman out of the viewers to experience his lengthy board with him into shore ahead of a packed seashore, it’s an emblem of the seismic swap that's already rippling throughout the kingdom because the principles and laws of the nineteenth century collapse to the anything-goes seashore tradition we understand this day.

The tale centres on Sydney, Australia, yet strikes among Honolulu, Stockholm and the Olympics in 1912, or even California (where the Duke ultimately is going looking for a Hollywood movie occupation, by means of Isabel). yet many extra characters from heritage humans those pages – resembling novelist Jack London, our first game promoter Hugh ‘Huge Deal’ Mcintosh in addition to different carrying greats – as one season, one summer time, epitomises the tip of an period and the delivery of a brand new one.

‘That summer season at Boomerang immerses the reader in a time “when enjoyable was once young”. The entwined tales of Duke Kahanamoku and Isabel Letham, whose paths crossed at Freshwater seashore on the sunrise of the age of superstar and the start of the good conflict, are the foreground to a desirable portrayal of Australia and Hawaii, of recreation and company, at that seminal moment.’
MALCOLM KNOX

‘Duke and Isabel are entrenched as iconic figures on the planet of browsing. this can be a splendidly romanticised account of what “really” occurred in the summertime of 1914.’
LAYNE BEACHLEY

‘Phil Jarratt has labored a miracle and resurrected Duke Kahanamoku, bringing him to existence with nice examine, wit and storytelling, and in particular love for all of surfing’s characters.’
BOB MCTAVISH

Phil Jarratt lives in Noosa, Australia and is the major author on browsing and browsing background in Australia. He has released many books on browsing and game biographies together with Salts and Suits, Hottest a hundred browsing Legends, Kelly Slater, Surfing Australia: the total background of Surf Board using in Australia. he's a former editor of Tracks