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Book Description: Writer, surfer, and househusband Richard Taylor is mad about beaches and islands, and was inspired by a house exchange that whisked him and his family from a freezing Ottawa winter to a year of some of the world s best surf on the east coast of Australia. In an era of packaged paradises and cyber surfers, the forty something writer s first case of the mid life blues seduced him into recapturing his youthful romance with surfing. Eventually he found himself adrift among surfers, women, and children as he documented a Shangri la lost dominated by a rogues gallery of hopeless romantics Lord Byron, Paul Gauguin, Bruce Chatwin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, deadbeat dad Jack Kerouac and, perhaps the planet s first literary househusband, Henry Miller. But watch out for the sharks! Those that see surfers as simply part of the food chain are the easy ones to spot, unlike the other, deadlier 'sharks' such as the one that took Taylor s younger sister and her four year old son in a tragic house fire. Still, despite such dark moments, this unique travel memoir provides a joyous testament to the religion of a life lived in water.

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