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Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life (Paperback) Price: R307
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Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life (Paperback): 'William Finnegan

Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life (Paperback)

'William Finnegan

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Winner of the Pulitzer Price 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 Illustrated

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Imprint: Corsair
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2016
Authors: 'William Finnegan
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5141-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Surfing, windsurfing, water skiing
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-4721-5141-0
Barcode: 9781472151414

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