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Against the water : a surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory / Owen Wright.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
797.32 WRI	Adult Non Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781761106576 (paperback)
Classification	797.32 WRI
Personal Name	Wright, O. (Owen)
Title	Against the water : a surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory / Owen Wright.
Production & Copyright Details	Cammeray, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Production & Copyright Details	©2023
Physical Description	321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Content type	still image
Summary Note	Against the Water carries the reader back to Wright's boyhood in the tiny town of Culburra, where his father, determined to raise champions, turned family life into a kind of boot camp. While eccentric, his father's methods bore fruit: the Wrights of Culburra would become Australian surfing royalty. Owen's story lays bare the complex relationship with his father - the adoration, the fight for independence, the fallings out, and the reconciliations. Told in a spare, intimate style, Against the Water is the moving account of an athlete who refused to accept that his best days were behind him and raises fundamental questions around family and competition. What, ultimately, is our duty to our children? At what point does bravery become folly? And how much should we sacrifice for the sake of another?
Subject-Personal Name	Wright, O.(Owen)
Subject - Topical Term	Surfers -- Australia -- Biography
Subject - Topical Term	Surfing -- Australia -- Biography
Subject - Genre	Autobiographies