Barbarian Days A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

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epub | 7.59 MB | English | Isbn:1594203474 | Author: William Finnegan | Year: 2015
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Description:

A deeply-rendered self-portrait of a life-long surfer.

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, of a complex enchantment. Surfing looks like a sport, but that's only to outsiders. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, 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, 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-and dramatizes the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.

Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu while his closest friend was...

Category:Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Sports, Biography Memoir, Adventure

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