Chas Smith has spent his whole life surfing. He has written adventure/travel stories for Playboy, Esquire, Vice, GQ, BlackBook, and The New York Times Magazine. He has covered wars in Lebanon, conflicts in Yemen, dirty oil dealings in Azerbaijan, and fashion in Somalia. He is the former editor-at-living-large for Surfing magazine, and writes for Australia's Stab. He lives in Los Angeles and has spent five winters on the North Shore.
[A] ripping profile of the surf culture on Oahu's North Shore . . .
Smith['s] storytelling is taught . . .--Wall Street
Journal
A hip expose of Hawaii's North Shore surfing culture . . .
entertains, while superior reporting informs and illuminates much
about the surf industry's peculiar machinations, its cavalcade of
sun-bleached heroes and the troubled history of Hawaii itself . . .
effortlessly shifting from the profound to the profane.--Kirkus
Reviews
A mix of reportage and gonzo journalism.... [with]
trenchant...astute observations.... If Hunter S. Thompson circa
Hell's Angels merged with a fashion critic to write about surfing
for Maxim, the result might be similar.--Publishers
Weekly
A vivid and somewhat disconcerting depiction of the world of
surfing and its attendant problems . . . An uncommon read for those
interested in surfing or those seeking a look at Hawaii from a
vantage point not normally found in history books.--Library
Journal
Smith grabs us with his first sentence [with] this exciting and
revelatory book--Booklist
"Chas Smith is a stone-cold original-a globe-trotting,
war-reporting, motorcycle-driving, cigarette-smoking, tube-riding,
fashion-obsessed international dandy with a penchant for dangerous
people, places, and, most of all, prose. Welcome To Paradise, Now
Go To Hell is absolutely the most entertaining surf book in years,
a breathless adrenalized romp."--Daniel Duane, author of Caught
Inside, A Surfer's Year on the California Coast
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