‘Into the Wild’ is the second monograph by Matthew Brookes and is a vibrant celebration of surf life and a joyful escape from the heavy reality that kids are living right now in the West Coast. Brookes followed a group of kids from their local surf spots in Venice Beach and up and down the coast on their adventures. The story is about van culture along the California coast - kids that choose to live the dream - live for surf and freedom and travel and live out of their vans - searching for the perfect wave. The book includes interviews with the van guys and girls done by Zack Raffin from a major surf magazine called 'Stab Magazine'. Zack is a young surfer himself and grew up with van culture - so the interviews will be geared towards surfers speaking to surfers. A special poster printed in 250 copies is included randomly in the book distributed worldwide.