Barbarian Days A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
eBook - 2015
**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 MagazineBarbarian 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 a...nd war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 8 GB |
ISBN | 9780698163744 |
Release Date | 7/21/2015 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B00G3L6JMS |
Release Date | 7/21/2015 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 8 GB |
ISBN | 9780698163744 |
Release Date | 7/21/2015 |