Pipe Dreams: A Surfer's Journey by Kelly Slater

Pipe Dreams:  A Surfer's Journey by Kelly Slater is a 338-page hardcover published in 2004 by Regan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, and is the stated first paperback published edition.   The book is in very good condition, with only very light surface wear to the cover from age and handling, but shows no signs of being read. Book Summary With its tiny waves, Cocoa Beach, Florida, isn't exactly a breeding ground for future world-champion surfers.  When Kelly Slater was a grommet growing up there, his biggest goal was to one day make it out far enough to catch the two-foot waves his dad and brother were riding. Life in the Slater household wasn't perfect, and as his parents' marriage fell apart and his dad battled alcoholism, Slater escaped to the beach and found peace on a surfboard.  Within a few years, his insatiable thirst for competition and an uncanny--almost innate--understanding of the physics of surfing would soon catapult him into the ranks of the very gods of the