In Search of Captain Zero

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"...the author's flair for describing natural beauty, and his strong sense of narative rhythm and uncompromising candor, make for a lovely personal reflection that mixes the right amount of dreamy meditation with page-turning allure... a balance of pathos and humor make Weisbecker's account very worthwhile reading."
—Publisher's Weekly

 

"Exciting and very articulate, a pleasure to read and difficult to put down. Once into the meat of the journey, Allan Weisbecker’s descriptions of the surroundings and characters are very tangible to the mind’s eye. If you’re a surfer or a seasoned traveler you’ll devour this. If you’re not you’ll wish you were. Pure adventure."
—Sheri Ellsion (Book Sense)

 

"In Search of Captain Zero wanders deep into the lonely, trippy, uniquely coastal world of the hardcore traveling surfer. . . America's commerce-enlivened morality is stripped clean of its supposedly civilized curves and tweaks, leaving little but the raw concerns of life, family and friends, and the oddly rich comfort of a wave worth riding. When it comes to this--the sheer strength of description of riding a wave--Allan Weisbecker is unsurpassed in modern writing."
—Nick Carroll (Global editor, Swell.com, Surfing)

 

."Weisbecker takes us along to ride shotgun on his intense journey, deep into the paradox of a literate, renegade surfer, in search of himself along a twisted, wave swept continent of last frontiers."
—Steve Pezman (The Surfer’s Journal)

 

"Allan Weisbecker has given us a surfer’s On the Road, straight into his very own Heart of Darkness. His book is rich in surf lore and is the stuff of adventure. A compelling read."
—Kem Nunn (Tapping the Source, The Dogs of Winter)

 

"A colorful ride into the essence of surfing's soul."
—Mike Stewart (Nine-time world bodyboard champ)

 

"Readers will place In Search of Captain Zero with other examples of classic travel literature, such as Kerouac's On the Road. But it is really more than that."
—Terry Tomalin, The St. Petersburg Times



"Perhaps the best surf book ever written."
—Kimo Rezeski, surfing editor, About.com

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"Weisbecker captures spot-on the warped and seemingly indescribable mind of the hardcore surfer with equal parts irony, tragedy, self-deprecation and brutal truth that make In Search of Captain Zero the first bona fide pulp page-turner written by a surfer for surfers. His true story is a movie waiting to happen, but very few non-surfers would believe it."
—Gary Taylor (ExtremeSports.com, Surfer)

 

"...(an) enchanting combination of memoir and travelogue...(and) as thrilling and as entertaining as any fictional road trip could ever hope to be. Weisbecker, an accomplished photojournalist (he’s contributed to Popular Photography and Smithsonian, among other publications), describes the friends’ experiences memorably (and occasionally hysterically), but he spends as much time looking inward as he does taking in the countryside. This memoir is, like any good autobiography, a journey to the place where memories live, an adventure of the mind."
—David Pitt (Booklist)

 

."Don’t be fooled by Weisbecker’s laconic, peaceful travel narrative, as lovely as it is—this is a sad, gripping, and strange book about much more than a search for a long lost pal. It is a book full of regrets and astonishments, tales of scuttled marijuana boats off Long Island and near-drownings in North Atlantic storms, meticulous descriptions of well ridden waves in Mexico and the crack-addled surf underworld of Central America, and also of painful meditations on friendship and love. In Search of Captain Zero offers fascinating first hand testimony about the perils of a life long search for the Endless Summer—a truly worthwhile contribution to the literature of the coastal life."
—Dan Duane (Caught Inside)

 

."This is wild-eyed, High Road Adventure stuff! The real thing. Had me riveted to every page. Read this book then get off the couch and go do something crazy!"
—Mike Doyle (Morning Glass)

 

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