On the cover: Dion Agius removes the right amount of serenity from a lonely, aquamarine bank on the east coast of Tasmania. Story points inside hack through the thickets of a rhythmic West African pointbreak, the machinations of procuring the perfect two-board quiver, and David Darling’s 1960s lens-work in Hawaii. Hayden Cox’s self-renovated perch in Sydney, and Chris Klopf’s traditional-minded subjects add a touch of the domestic. More below.

On the cover: Multi-disciplined surfboard artisan Joe Roper. Features inside the book include a Mexican wave zone lost to time and interest, a glacial-fed A-frame, and a surf playground amid an atomic testing range. The animation and comic paneling of cartoonists Stephen Hillenburg and Roy Gonzalez, plus the creative outputs of Josh Martin, Denis Stock, and Nate Lawrence add additional facets and textures.