Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing

Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave SurfingIn the 1970s, a decade before bumper stickers and T shirts bearing the phrase Eddie Would Go began popping up all over the Hawaiian islands and throughout the surfing world, Eddie Aikau was proving what it meant to be a "waterman." As a fearless and gifted surfer, he rode the biggest waves in the world; as the first and most famous Waimea Bay lifeguard on the North Shore, he saved hundreds of lives from its treacherous waters; and as a proud Hawaiian,

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his nation

to Niuatoputapu

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the author's fascination with the man and the disease is transmitted to the reader

and the possibilities for a decolonial future

unhampered by English

privy to the shifting modes of governance adopted by the Hawaiian kingdom

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