In Search of Captain Zero : A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
by Allan C. Weisbecker
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Author: Allan C. WeisbeckerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2001-03
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 328
Publisher: Tarcher
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Having read all three of Weisbecker's books, getting a copy of Zen and Zero, and telling as many people as I can about his work through emails, myspace, and facebook, In Search of Captain Zero is probably one of my favorite books. Its a great one to jump into, especially if you are into Hunter S. Thompson, truth, humor, and can handle a couple of downer moments they pleae read this book. I first ready Cosmic Bandidos in the course of three hours, drove the book back to a friend and quickly stole Captain Zero, finished it two days later, then waited patiently for CYGAWA. Read all of the books, but go with Zero first.
Summary of In Search of Captain Zero : A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend.
In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."
In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for September/October.
In 1966, Allan Weisbecker "made a Manhattan run from the landlocked suburbs" to take in a siren-song movie called The Endless Summer, a documentary that depicted the carefree life of two beach bums who roamed the world in quest of the perfect wave. Weisbecker was hooked, and he became a hardcore wave rider, a fixture on the Long Island surf scene. With a friend, Christopher, he also undertook illegal ways to finance his passion, transporting drugs from exotic countries, a business only briefly interrupted when Christopher went off to Vietnam. There he took fire and came home scarred; something in him changed, and one day he simply vanished.
Weisbecker's book, a sort of gonzo detective story blended with travelogue and peppered with hang-10 jargon, does many things, all of them very well indeed. It offers up a vision of innocent times brought to ruin by war and drugs; it recounts his search for his lost friend, whose life had gone from bad to worse far away from home; and it affords a look inside the strange culture of surfing, whose masters "understood, in a visceral and soulful and inexpressible way, the machinations of the sea, and, by subtle inference, the universe at large."
Full of regret and exhilaration, Weisbecker's memoir is a fine chronicle of a dream gone sour and a friendship redeemed. --Gregory McNamee
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