Nat Young Book event "Church of the Open Sky"

Berkelouw Books opened in Mona Vale in 2007. We have a spacious, light-filled store where you can discover a wide range of books and gifts for adults and children. Our staff are experienced booklovers who have the best bookselling technology at their fingertips to ensure they can satisfy your reading needs. We are a community based bookstore. We host bookclubs for readers of literature, crime and for kids who just love to read. We also host Writers Live events where readers can meet authors, talk about books and find out how good (and how hard) it is to be a writer. We also offer occasional workshops in areas that we believe are important to our customers.

Berkelouw Books, Mona Vale

Join us at Berkelouw Books Mona Vale for an evening with Nat Young as he discusses his latest book Church of the Open Sky. Nat is one of the world’s surfing legends, winner of four world surfing titles and an inductee of the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame (1986).
Nat's seventieth birthday inspired some reflection on what exactly makes a surfing life, and on the waves and characters that have marked his remarkable time as a surfer–Miki Dora, Midget Farrelly and Kathy Kohner–the real Gidget, to name a few. But surfing for Nat Young–and so many like-minded surfers–has never been about winning, never been about the sport. It’s a calling, an endless quest, a philosophy, a religion. Most of all, surfing is a way of life that has underpinned his other identities as board shaper, film producer, writer, raconteur, conservationist, activist, pilot, husband and father. Candid and wryly observed, Church of the Open Sky explores what it means to be a surfer, with a collection of true stories of Nat’s surfing life, and the friends, foes and heroes he’s met along the way.
“Nat could have been a reporter. An eyewitness to several chapters of surfing history…the man they used to call the Animal has mellowed somewhat. He’s had adventures in every corner of the world, with plenty of lessons learned, and he’s ready to share.” William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize Winning author

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