{"product_id":"barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-paperback","title":"Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Price and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eBarbarian Days \u003c\/i\u003eis a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurfing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. \u003ci\u003eBarbarian Days\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbarian Days\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Finnegan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40511032787122,"sku":"9781472151414","price":365.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/95856_611ecc4e3c69c3.06139785_9781472151414.jpg?v=1676387517","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}