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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life Paperback By William Finnegan 2015
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- MPN
- Does not apply
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Vintage
- No
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Era
- 2010s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Illustrated, Mini
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- ISBN
- 9780143109396
- Book Title
- Barbarian Days : a Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Surfing
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 12.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List "Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " --The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses--off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143109391
ISBN-13
9780143109396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219259989
Product Key Features
Book Title
Barbarian Days : a Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Special Interest / Adventure, Personal Memoirs, Essays & Travelogues, Surfing
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Dewey Decimal
797.32092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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- 20 Apr, 2017Top favourable review
- 14 May, 2020
Made me curious
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- 24 Nov, 2020
Surf Adventures
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- 25 Nov, 2020
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