Description: Further DetailsTitle: Barbarian DaysCondition: NewEAN: 9781472151414ISBN: 9781472151414Publisher: CorsairFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/10/2016Item Height: 195mmItem Length: 130mmItem Width: 34mmItem Weight: 400gAuthor: William FinneganLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Surfing LifeISBN-10: 1472151410Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer)Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life.New Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water.Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment. 'Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard' Sports IllustratedWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography announced on 18/4/2016.Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year announced on 24/11/2016Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Sports & HobbiesRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Barbarian Days
Publication Name: Barbarian Days
Title: Barbarian Days
EAN: 9781472151414
ISBN: 9781472151414
Publisher: Corsair
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 05/10/2016
Release Year: 2016
Item Height: 195mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 34mm
Item Weight: 400g
Author: William Finnegan
Language: English
Subtitle: A Surfing Life
ISBN-10: 1472151410
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Biography
Topic: Sports & Hobbies
