Jean-Etienne Poirier is an avid surfer, skier, and skateboarder, as well as a journalist and cultural anthropologist. He has consulted for international aid organizations, and he lectures on travel themes and mountain climbing.
Audacity, Equilibrium, and Other Mysteries of Surfing
Nature and the Environment / Philosophy / Sale Books
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 176 pages / 6 1/4 x 8
ISBN 978-1-59030-060-2 / May 2003
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There is no greater or more powerful or more pure human rapport with the elements than that experienced by a surfer dancing with the ocean. In Dancing the Wave, Jean-Etienne Poirier brings alive the world of surfing by offering historical, anthropological, and cultural perspectives on...