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Moore graduated from University of California, San Diego in 1991 with a degree in German Literature.
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results
( How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii...)
How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii―one that was nearly eliminated by Christian missionaries―jump oceans to California and Australia? And how did it become such a worldwide passion, even in places where the surf may be excellent but the society is highly conservative or superstitious about the sea? In Sweetness and Blood - a brilliantly written travel adventure - journalist (and surfer) Michael Scott Moore visits unlikely surfing destinations―Israel and the Gaza Strip, West Africa, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Cuba, and Morocco―to find out. Whether he is connecting eccentric surf legend Doc Paskowitz to the Arab-Israeli conflict, trying to deconstruct the terrorist bombing in a nightclub in Bali, or being chased by the German police while surfing a river break in Berlin, Moore masterfully weaves together politics, culture, history, and surfing to create a book like no other.
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results by Michael Scott Moore (24-May-2011) Paperback
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Too Much of Nothing
( Set in southern California during Reagan's 1980s, Micha...)
Set in southern California during Reagan's 1980s, Michael Scott Moore's first novel follows the exploits of two teenage boys: Eric, an intelligent, thoughtful, socially restless honors student, and Tom, a defiant, posturing rebel, with a Clockwork Orange complex and a taste for cocaine and cowboy hats. Fifteen years after his ostensibly accidental death at the hands of Tom, Eric narrates the story of his last few months on earth. He believes he is a nefesh, a restless Jewish ghost that wanders the earth until put at ease, and he ultimately realizes that in order to find peace he must reconcile his resentment and vengefulness with his own enduring incredulousness over his premature death. This humorous, honest, and, at times, heartbreaking book introduces a new city to the atlas of imaginary American towns. Moore's Calaveras Beach is a microcosm of L.A.'s protean pop culture, where Rasta beach bums, trust-fund gutter punks, and Nicaraguan drug lords weave in and out of the lives of grieving hausfraus, pitiable driver's-ed instructors, and awkward adolescents. All mix seamlessly in this enjoyable debut novel about the confusion and frustration we face while coming of age, and the fears and apprehensions that may persist well after death.
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Too Much of Nothing by Michael S. Moore (2003-08-12)
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Michael Moore
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He lives in Berlin and also holds German citizenship. In January 2012, he was abducted in Galkayo, Somalia while researching a book about piracy. Moore was held captive for over two and a half years, and released September 22, 2014.
Moore traveled to Somalia on a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting to research a book on piracy.
He was abducted by a local gang of pirates in January 2012 in the town of Galkayo. Several days later two aid workers, Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted, also being held by Somali pirates, were rescued by a Navy Sea, Air, Land operation.
The gang holding Moore subsequently demanded $20 million
American officials and the German Foreign Ministry collaborated on negotiations with the pirates, until Moore was freed September 22, 2014. Moore has published two books: the novel Too Much of Nothing, published by Carroll & Graf.
And the nonfiction history of surfing Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results, published by Rodale in 2010.
Sweetness and Blood was named a Best Book of 2010 by The Economist and Popmatters.com. Moore worked as the theater columnist for San Francisco Weekly, until he moved to Berlin, Germany in 2005. In Germany he worked as both a staff and a freelance editor for Spiegel Online International, a position he still holds.
In 2010-2011 he covered a trial of ten Somali pirates in Hamburg who were charged with trying to hijack the Move Files Taipan.
His journalism has been published in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times. From 2009-2012 he also wrote a weekly column for Miller-McCune (now Pacific Standard) on transport-Atlantic issues, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization effort against Somali pirates.
In 2009, for the column, he sailed on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization frigate charged with catching pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
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book
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results
( How did an obscure tribal sport from precolonial Hawaii...)
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Too Much of Nothing
( Set in southern California during Reagan's 1980s, Micha...)
- Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results by Michael Scott Moore (24-May-2011) Paperback
- Too Much of Nothing by Michael S. Moore (2003-08-12)
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Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results
