Barbarian days: a surfing life
(Large Print)
Barbarian Days is William Finnegans 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 and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our nosesoff the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.
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Finnegan, W. (2016). Barbarian days: a surfing life. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Finnegan, William. 2016. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Finnegan, William, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016.
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