William Finnegan Barbarian Days (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)All Tariffs and Duties included - no additional charges
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William Finnegan Barbarian Days (Paperback) (UK IMPORT). Author: William Finnegan. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year announced on 24/11/2016. Topic: Biography. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Item Height: 195mm. Release Date: 05/10/2016. Further DetailsTitle: Barbarian Days Condition: New Description: 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 Illustrated Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography announced on 18/4/2016.Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year announced on 24/11/2016 Author: William Finnegan Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 1472151410 EAN: 9781472151414 ISBN: 9781472151414 Publisher: Corsair Release Date: 05/10/2016 Item Height: 195mm Item Length: 130mm Subtitle: A Surfing Life Genre: Sports & Hobbies Topic: Biography Item Width: 34mm Item Weight: 400g Language: English Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
