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Nat Young and his dog, Arthur, at Barranjoey, 1960s. Photo by Dick Graham.

“The Fantastic Plastic Voyage is about a unique South Seas adventure that brought together some of the world’s greatest surfers. Brian St. Pierre, the author, was a member of a movie company that followed fourteen young American surfers to Tahiti, Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia, where they did their thing for the first wide-screen, full-length surfing movie ever made, The Fantastic Plastic Machine.

Their adventures and misadventures on and off camera are only part of the some times hilarious story; such well-known surfers as Skip Frye, Mickey Munoz, Steve Bigler, Mike Purpus, and Margo Godfrey were in the group, and this account of their fantastic voyage is the best portrait on record of surfers individually and as a group.