Barbarian Days : A Surfing Life (9781472151414)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016

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.

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 512 pages
• Dimensions 139 x 217 x 37mm | 488g
• Publication date 31 May 2016
• Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint Corsair
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note b&w photos
• ISBN10 1472151410
• ISBN13 9781472151414
• Bestsellers rank 4,798

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