This surf book, and the words written within are unlike any stories you would find in the average surf magazine. Its nice to see an alternative for those who would rather read a great book and not a magazine full of ads.

The author uses a unique and descriptive style to take you into his adventures, as if he was telling you the story over a few beers at a bar. You feel drawn in and itching to read the next chapter to see what hilarity, mishaps and strange characters the author will meet in the next journey.

Kimball Taylor writes with succinct clarity, beguiling empathy and a crazed, matter of fact humor that will delight most anyone who loves a story. He travels the world, knows it’s oceans and understands that getting to the water and meeting the people along the way is essential to the joy of surfing.

A series of surf stories that tell us more about why we live as surfers than how we do it. See Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures at amazon.com