The Bright List

How Surfers Go Hunting for The Ghost Wave - Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave On Earth

 

 

Ghost Wave by, Chris Dixon

Ghost Wave is a surf classic.

Listen to Chris's afterword: here!

This is a Melville-style conquest of the Biggest Wave in the World, the story of the men who captured it—and those who were destroyed. This is Sherlock Holmes meets Adventure Thriller par excellence.

Cortes Bank, the fabled land off the North Pacific, has the special elements to make the largest waves in the world. Dixon explains in depth why it's possible, and what it takes to surf it.

You can watch the book trailer below. The trailer is voiced by our intrepid author, who also narrates the audiobook. People who loved Sebastian Junger's work are going to fall in love with Dixon the same way.

 

Narrated by Chris Dixon himself! 

--Aretha Bright

The Playboy Aristocrat Who Turned Mayan Hieroglyphics-- and His Own Life-- Upside Down

The Road to Ruins, by Ian Graham

Ian Graham was raised a classic British aristocrat, who could’ve easily gone to seed with his wealth and playthings. Instead, he became a first-class autodidact who would, almost accidentally, change the course of archeology and anthropology.

His writing is delicious. It starts with his childhood friendship with Rudyard Kipling, and it just never stops.

University of New Mexico Press was pleased to publish Graham’s book as an anthropology classic, but they soon realized he was garnering fans who had no interest in relics at all! It’s him, this amazing man, who’s the attraction. Graham’s life is one of those “unbelievable adventures,” a road trip in a swank car that went completely off the rails—told with great humility and wit.

Narrated by the fantastic film actor John Mawson, whose voice is instantly humorous, cheeky—he could talk me into anything. (I think Audible has a untapped dating service just waiting to happen).

—Aretha Bright