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    In 1906, American author Jack London built a yacht called the Snark and embarked on a 7-year voyage around the world. During a stop in Hawaii, London experienced surfing, which he described as the "Royal Sport" in a chapter of his book The Cruise of the Snark. This text is considered the first account from a Westerner learning to surf. London wrote that man must accept the power of the ocean rather than try to dominate it, and that one has to move with the waves in order to surf. The origins of surfing are unknown, but London speculated that it may have developed naturally over time as people contemplated the ocean.

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    In 1906, American author Jack London built a yacht called the Snark and embarked on a 7-year voyage around the world. During a stop in Hawaii, London experienced surfing, which he described as the "Royal Sport" in a chapter of his book The Cruise of the Snark. This text is considered the first account from a Westerner learning to surf. London wrote that man must accept the power of the ocean rather than try to dominate it, and that one has to move with the waves in order to surf. The origins of surfing are unknown, but London speculated that it may have developed naturally over time as people contemplated the ocean.

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    In 1906, American author Jack London built a yacht called the Snark and embarked on a 7-year voyage around the world. During a stop in Hawaii, London experienced surfing, which he described as the "Royal Sport" in a chapter of his book The Cruise of the Snark. This text is considered the first account from a Westerner learning to surf. London wrote that man must accept the power of the ocean rather than try to dominate it, and that one has to move with the waves in order to surf. The origins of surfing are unknown, but London speculated that it may have developed naturally over time as people contemplated the ocean.

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    A Royal Sport, Jack London

    In 1906, Jack London built his own yacht, the Snark, and planned a 7 years
    trip around the world. The cruise stopped in Hawaii where London expe-
    rienced the “Royal Sport” of surfing. The text he wrote from this adventure,
    chapter VII of his book The Cruise of the Snark is considered as the first ac-
    count of a man attempting to surf.

    “It does no good to fight the waves; you have to accept their relentless advance,
    their superior force. “Let the big smoker that is trying to smash you go by far
    overhead.” In short, man does not have to dominate nature but should remember
    that he is a part of it, that the ocean does not have to adapt to him but that he has to
    adapt to it, that he has to assimilate the motion of the waves if he wants to be assimi-
    lated into it. Then he will discover the instinct that compelled people, no doubt after
    long contemplation and a few random embarkations, to glide over the waves. Because
    surfing is a mystery, too; we don’t know when it was born, and it would be tempting
    to imagine it as being as old as the world, as old as the swell.”
    (Quote from Publisher’s note).

    Avara italic | Lucas Le Bihan | Dreams Office | 21 December 2017 - 13:03 | page 3/3

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