![]() ![]() Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our nosesoff the coasts of New York and San Francisco. ![]() A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. ![]() Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography.īarbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer. ![]()
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