**In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and
controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara--star and subject of the
HBO mini-series, 100 Foot Wave--chronicles his emotional quest to ride
the most formidable waves on earth.
Garrett McNamara set the world record for the sport, surfing a
seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazaré, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed
two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge and
promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner
and polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous
swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane
swells.
But what motivates McNamara to go to such extremes--to risk everything
for one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in
control or surrender?
Personal and emotional, readers will know GMac as never before, seeing
for the first time the personal alongside the professional in an
exciting, intimate look at what drives this inventive, iconoclastic man.
Surfing awesome giants isn't just thrill seeking, he explains--it's
about vanquishing fears and defeating obstacles past and present.
Surfers and non-surfers alike will embrace McNamara's story--as they
have William Finnegan's Barbarian Days--an its intimate look at the
enigmatic pursuit of riding waves, big and small.
Hound of the Sea is a record of perseverance, passion, and healing.
Thoughtful, suspenseful, and spiritually profound, McNamara reveals the
beautiful soul of surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring and
devoted disciples.
