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Title	:	In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
Author	:	Allan C. Weisbecker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	September 16th 2002 by TarcherPerigee (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Travel. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir

In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road

Allan C. Weisbecker

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.89 | 2397 Users | 172 Reviews

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In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend.

In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for September/October.

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Original Title:	In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
ISBN:	1585421774 (ISBN13: 9781585421770)
Edition Language:	English

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A fun wild ride!

Surf Adventure / Surf Epic / Surf Saga / Mix of just the right amount of back story expertly woven into the current adventure. Well done. Think Travels with Charlie (complete with dog) but with a surf board and through Central America instead of the US west. Turns out this book easily overcomes a bit too much descriptive wording in just a few spots to go to the top of the SURF QUEST list!

I enjoyed the travelogue aspect of the book, the accounts of surfing and occasional pithy insights. But the author often comes off smug and way too often uses $5 words. They not only fuck up the reading flow, but really turned me against him as a narrator.



I love the search ...

First let me say that I have never surfed, and other than watching Point Break, am ignorant of surfing culture. Likewise, I have never journeyed south of the border, and I certainly never was an international drug smuggler (though I have been known to inhale). That said, Mr. Weisbecker's writing put me right there, and made me feel that I was participating in these adventures. He vividly and viscerally described surfing to the point that I felt the rush, and almost tasted salt water. His

In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a bodacious account of Weisbecker's slow-travel South, from Mexico to Costa Rica, in search of a vanished surfing buddy. Comprising a hybrid of the movie Point Break and the book Mr Nice, spliced with a touch of gonzo travelling for good measure, this book proves beyond doubt that the surfing gods truly do exist.Having had no communication from his best friend Christopher Conner (aka Captain Zero), apart from a