Warshaw spent years assembling this — fifteen hundred entries covering surfers, breaks, board designers, films, magazines, contests, terminology, and the odd corners nobody else bothered with. It’s alphabetical and it’s browsable to a dangerous degree: You look up one thing and lose an hour. The tone is what makes it, because he writes short biographies with real judgment in them rather than press-release summaries. I’ve known Matt for nearly forty years, and I love his intelligence, his insistence on taking a stand, and his commitment to using salty language whenever and wherever possible.
The Encyclopedia of Surfing