Patting the Shark by Tim Baker - ISBN: 9781760898915
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Surfer faces cancer: Finding life, hope, and healing on the waves.
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Patting the Shark

A Surfer's Journey: Learning to Live Well with Cancer

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    2 August 2022

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Summary

A surfer’s journey learning to live well with cancer

Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves.

That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760898915
ISBN-10:1760898910
Author:Tim Baker
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:2 August 2022
Weight:472g
Dimensions:34mm x 234mm x 156mm
About The Author

Tim Baker

Tim Baker is the bestselling author of Bustin’ Down the Door, High Surf, Occy, Surf for Your Life (with Mick Fanning), Surfari and Century of Surf. He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines. He has twice won the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award and been nominated for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, Playboy, GQ, the Surfers Journal and Qantas- The Australian Way, as well as surfing magazines around the world.

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