THE SURFIN’ARY, compiled and edited by...

THE SURFIN’ARY, compiled and edited by Trevor Cralle (Ten Speed Press: $19.95; 200 pp.). If you think “Hey, dude” is the be-all and end-all of surfer talk, this exhaustive, good-humored book will expand more than your vocabulary. It not only lists more than 3,000 surfing terms from around the world, it packs such scholarly apparatus as a bibliography, list of sources, various appendices (including ancient Hawaiian surfing terms) and a history of surfing into a rather light-hearted, heavily illustrated format. As the wahines down at the Pipeline might have put it, Cowabunga!