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BARBARIAN DAYS
A SURFING LIFE |
| By: |
William Finnegan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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£3.51 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1472151410 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781472151414 |
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Currently 151 available |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
10 May, 2016 |
| Pages: |
512 |
| Description: |
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer |
| Synopsis: |
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZESurfing 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. 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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Corsair |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2016 (UK)
Short-listed for William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2016 (UK)
Short-listed for Cross Sports Book Awards General Outstanding Sports |
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Returnable |
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