The Register Book Club is reading surf memoir “Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life and Catching the Perfect Wave” by Peter Heller. Heller, an aventure and outdoors writer, tells how he dealt ...

Kook, noun. Pronunciation: kük : An individual with no understanding of the social and sartorial norms of surfing. In the water, a kook’s cluelessness can aggravate or endanger other surfers; on ...

Is there any other sport in the world, in which the established participants, are as critical and intolerant towards the beginners of said sport than surfing? Surfers – at least those who have been ...

Author Peter Heller spent two months with anti-whaling activists aboard a beat-up boat in Antarctica for one book. A kayaking expedition down a legendarily remote river gorge in Tibet provided the ...

At age 45, Peter Heller was unmarried and questioning his life’s path. In the throes of a midlife crisis, he and a buddy decided to — what else? — learn to surf in California. Then there was a second ...