PART cosmology, part memoir, this book is a strange cross-breed. Writer and surfer visits the in Hawaii, the in Washington, and in California in his quest to understand the origin of the universe. His writing ranges from tiresomely hyperbolic to transcendent, with funny and touching moments in between, but his genuine wonder at the universe and our place in it continually shines through. Although Martin doesn鈥檛 always get scientific details right, his philosophising is contagious, and he beautifully captures all that is narcissistic and endearingly human, both in his own journey and in the efforts of cosmologists; he describes them as wranglers of invisible cows, ever dreaming of 鈥渢ranscending the human condition鈥�.
For one man鈥檚 wacky and profound take on the nature of reality, surf鈥檚 up.
Simon & Schuster