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Chapters: People From Kauai County, Hawaii, People From Maui, People From Molokai, Laird Hamilton, Eric Shinseki, Samuel C. Armstrong, Patsy Mink, Camile Velasco, Kendall Grove, Shane Victorino, Anthony T. Kaho ohanohano, Armine Von Tempski, Danny Ongais, Marianne Cope, Candis Cayne, Eduardo Malapit, Keali i Reichel, David Lewiston, Spar Street, Bumpei Akaji, Kiana Tom, Ryler Deheart, Yukio Okutsu, Sasha Barrese, Amy Gilliom, E. Alison Kay, Cedric Ceballos, Tadashi Sato, Renee Alway, Jarah Mariano, Masato Nakae, Rene Sylva, Kani Kauahi, Kim Coco Iwamoto, Tyler Yates, Sean Mclaughlin, Sonya Balmores, Reuben Tam, Dylan Donkin, Harry Field, Bryan J. Baptiste, Charlie Chong, Kawika Kapahulehua, Melveen Leed, David Kuraoka, Brennen Carvalho, Sanoe Lake, William Thomas Dunn, Jim Ballantine, Steve Cooke, Brian Wittman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 173. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Laird Hamilton (born Laird John Zerfas, March 2, 1964, San Francisco, California) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality and model. Hamilton and his family split their time between residences in Maui, Hawaii and Malibu, California. Laird was born in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental bathysphere designed to ease the mother's labor. His Greek birth father, L.G. Zerfas, left the family before his first birthday. Afterwards but while he was still an infant, Laird and his mother, Joann Zyirek Zerfas, moved to Hawaii. Even as a child Laird was adventurous, as is shown in footage of him jumping off a sixty foot cliff into deep water at 7 years old. While still a young boy living on Oahu Island, Hawaii, Laird met with later-legendary 1960...http: //booksllc.net/?id=84660
