Andrew Martin and Andy Martin — Stealing The Wave The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw And Mark Foo

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2007 Paperback 256 It is winter in the mid-eighties and two surfers are battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Hawaii, surfing's spiritual home, where some of the biggest, most awesome waves in the world crash onto the shore. Ken Bradshaw has been around the longest, he's an old-school surfer, some say, too old. This muscular Texan veteran came to Hawaii in the early 1970s and fast became the island's hottest surfer. He has a fearsome reputation on the waves and didn't suffer fools gladly. Anyone who cut him up or got in his way had to deal with Bradshaw's temper - he was known to take bites out of other surfer's boards. Then along came the new kid on the block - Mark Foo. An icon of the next generation, this slim, good-looking Chinese American began wowing the crowds with his lightning repertoire of cool moves. Cover and page edges have foxed, cover a little faded. Good