Bøker av Jonathan Weston

It's 1933. The war in Spain is tearing the world apart. Over in America, you can't get a drink due to Prohibition. But down in Key West, you can get away from it all, and if you know the right crowd, you can drink and fish. In Book Two of The Hemingway Trilogy, the stakes are high for Hemingway. He needs to wrap up his novel on the rum runnings of island society, but it's not in him. Going fishing for big marlin is, and just as soon as the saloon doors of Sloppy Joe's blow open, a woman to blame enters. Her name, you may know, is Martha Gellhorn. Before her, there was Jane Kendall Mason and Mrs. Bradley. There's a beach full of trouble, so he might as well have another. After all; there's No Special Hurry.

Capturing Maui's golden era of windsurfing, from the early pioneering days of Kailua to the big waves at Hookipa and Jaws, this book tells the story of the Kings and legends of the sport as it evolved from longboards to high-performances in big surf. Fictional dialogue accompanies remarkable true events of survival, from near-drownings to helicopter crashes. Told by Sports Illustrated Picture of the Year (POY) award-winning photographer and filmmaker Jonathan Weston. He was the first filmmaker to take the audience along for the ride with his innovative point-of-view (POV) helmet-mounted 16mm movie camera. The thrills, dangers and behind the scenes experiences are all shared in this epic tale of perseverance and survival.