Soul Surfer Johnny Rides

The first modern books to celebrate the almost unknown ocean sport of big wave bodysurfing, the Soul Surfer Johnny series of true-to-life novels reveal not only the intricacies and dangers of the daring sport, but the multitude of characters and highly skilled watermen who participate in it around the world. The final chapter in the series, Soul Surfer Johnny Rides adds 15 new stories to the mix. Again, it takes the reader to the scene of one of the world's top bodysurfing beaches, Puerto Tranquilo, Mexico, where Soul Surfer Johnny discovers his true inner self, and the magic of this crazy little seaside town, a beach town almost without peer. With it comes a host of unusual characters who annually visit this town, for its wild, unbridled `live and let-live' attitude, its wonderful weather, the excitement of its huge surf, and its easy-going ambiance. In spite of 30 years of slow growth, it is still a highly desirable destination, for it remains a small Mexican beach town which only came into the 20th Century very late in the game. So remote there wasn't a highway to the town until the mid 1970s, Puerto Tranquilo is still difficult to reach, even by airplane. So it takes a certain amount of determination to visit it, which tens of thousands of tourists now do every year.