You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago
Easy-rolling autobiography of Phil Edwards, revered California power surfer of the '50s and '60s, coauthored by Sports Illustrated staff writer Bob Ottum, and published by Harper & Row in 1967. You Should Have Been Here an Hour Ago: The Stoked Side of Surfing, or How to Hang Ten Through Life and Stay Happy—surfing's first full-length biography—grew out of an SI cover story Ottum wrote on Edwards in 1966, and is thought by many to be among the best books on surfing.
You Should Have Been Here ...