The story of surfing in Scotland is defined by people who dared to dream in spite of the cold, from Neva Gordon-Dean and the coffin-lid surfers of Machrihanish, who first took to the waves off the west coast in the 1930s with a little help from a local undertaker, to Andy Bennetts and the pioneers of the 1960s, who discovered many of the nation's best breaks, to contemporary big wave surfer Ben Larg, a native of the tiny island of Tiree who now travels the world riding skyscraper-sized walls of water for a living. It is also home to a rich and distinctive surfing culture, with its own...