Surfing Guide to Southern California

by David H. Stern

This is a true surf classic. It is the first ever guide book to California and was done in 1963 when the coast was still uncrowded and pristine. It is still very accurate in that the coastline has changed very little although the land has been overrun. Check out the classic longboard photos.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

David H. Stern born in Los Angeles in 1935, is the great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University and was a professor at UCLA. He then received a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, did graduate work at the University of Judaism, and was active in the Messianic Jewish movement. Dr. Stern authored the highly acclaimed English translations, the Jewish New Testament, the Jewish New Testament Commentary, and the Complete Jewish Bible.

Reviews

[M.E. Williams]

love it for some esoteric but slightly outdated descriptions of socal surf spots. love how spot names have changed since the 60s and enjoyed the rare writing about surfing around the channel islands. suffers from the same sexism we see today in 85% of surf writing, so docked a couple stars wee woo