Surfer Sam Bleakley and photographer John Callahan recently published a new book called Surfing Brilliant Corners.

Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel. The book takes surfing beyond the waves and packaged surf tourism to a wider sense of place and cultural identity. Sam travels from his birthplace in West Cornwall to Indonesia and the Philippines; through vibrant West African highlife in Ghana, to war-damaged Liberia; to Mauritania, where landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet; to a serene Buddhist oasis in Communist China; to Ecuador, Oman and Haiti, whose complex culture seeps into his psyche and captures his heart.

‘Surfing’, Sam Bleakley says, ‘has opened me up, split my skin, widened my horizons, and closed me down, because any obsession restricts your involvement in other aspects of life.’