Fearlessness

Description

A beautiful tomboy nicknamed "Trouble," Lisa Andersen ran away from home at sixteen determined to become the best surfer in the world. In this wholly original biography, esteemed surf writer Nick Carroll captures her unconventional path to fame. Lisa Andersen did indeed become surfing world champion - not once but four times. Along the way she raised a baby daughter on tour, launched the Roxy brand surf wear for girls, broke a thousand hearts, and inspired an entire generation of girls to surf. Packed with full colour photography and backed by a powerful publicity campaign, "Fearlessness" lays bare the life story of a young woman who conquered the surf world and changed it forever.

Nick Carroll is a former editor of Surfing magazine and the author of The Next Wave. He lives in Australia.

"Lisa made us realize it was okay to be a girl and surf." Layne Beachley, seven-time world surfing champion "Lisa defined a new era for women's surfing and changed what men thought of how women surfed. She's the young girl that grew up too fast in one way, but couldn't wait to get there and never wanted to look back." Kelly Slater "Surfers will want to read it and female athletes will enjoy the story of a woman who made it to the top, but any teenager who ever felt trapped and alone by circumstance, any teen who knew her parents were never going to understand, that her life was on a deadend trajectory with high school fading into a crap job at some low-paying retail outlet, needs to know how Lisa Andersen made it. They need to know that you can do anything--anything--when you work your ever loving ass off at it." --BookSlut.com "Lisa made us realize it was okay to be a girl and surf." Layne Beachley, seven-time world surfing champion "Lisa defined a new era for women's surfing and changed what men thought of how women surfed. She's the young girl that grew up too fast in one way, but couldn't wait to get there and never wanted to look back." Kelly Slater "Surfers will want to read it and female athletes will enjoy the story of a woman who made it to the top, but any teenager who ever felt trapped and alone by circumstance, any teen who knew her parents were never going to understand, that her life was on a deadend trajectory with high school fading into a crap job at some low-paying retail outlet, needs to know how Lisa Andersen made it. They need to know that you can do anything anything when you work your ever loving ass off at it." BookSlut.com" "Lisa made us realize it was okay to be a girl and surf." Layne Beachley, seven-time world surfing champion "Lisa defined a new era for women's surfing and changed what men thought of how women surfed. She's the young girl that grew up too fast in one way, but couldn't wait to get there and never wanted to look back." Kelly Slater