Author Patrick Moser discusses his book Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture. For adults.

The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California in 1907. Over the next 12 years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. A compelling merger of biography and sports history, Surf and Rescue: George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture brings to light the forgotten figure whose novel way of seeing the beach sparked the imaginations of people around the world.

Patrick Moser is a professor of writing at Drury University and editor of Pacific Passages: An Anthology of Surf Writing.

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