Barbarian Days


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Barbarian Days


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Author : William Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2015-07-21

Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List “Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s 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 noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity. 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.



Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days


Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-03-20T22:59:00Z

Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-20T22:59:00Z with Sports & Recreation categories.


Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was a haole, or white, kid in a primarily Hawaiian school in Honolulu. The other kids made fun of me, and I didn’t have any friends. I was too scared to say anything. #2 I was sent to Kaimuki Intermediate School, a racially segregated school, where I was bullied and had no friends. I was bored in class, and spent most of my time watching the trees outside for wind direction and strength. #3 I was excited to be in Hawaii, and I was surprised by how little surf there was. The waves were small and dark-faced, and the wind offshore. I was worried about the coral reef off the beach. #4 I paddled west along a shallow lagoon, staying close to the shore, for half a mile. The beach houses ended, and the steep, brushy base of Diamond Head itself took their place across the sand. The reef on my left fell away, revealing a wide channel deep water where no waves broke.



Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days


Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days
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Author : Milkyway Media
language : en
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Release Date : 2022-04-28

Summary Of William Finnegan S Barbarian Days written by Milkyway Media and has been published by Milkyway Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-28 with Sports & Recreation categories.


Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was a haole, or white, kid in a primarily Hawaiian school in Honolulu. The other kids made fun of me, and I didn’t have any friends. I was too scared to say anything. #2 I was sent to Kaimuki Intermediate School, a racially segregated school, where I was bullied and had no friends. I was bored in class, and spent most of my time watching the trees outside for wind direction and strength. #3 I was excited to be in Hawaii, and I was surprised by how little surf there was. The waves were small and darkfaced, and the wind offshore. I was worried about the coral reef off the beach. #4 I paddled west along a shallow lagoon, staying close to the shore, for half a mile. The beach houses ended, and the steep, brushy base of Diamond Head itself took their place across the sand. The reef on my left fell away, revealing a wide channel deep water where no waves broke.



Barbarian Days


Barbarian Days
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Author : William Finnegan
language : ko
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-20

Barbarian Days written by William Finnegan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-20 with categories.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography, 2016 BARBARIAN DAYS: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. A memoir about surfing? Yes and no. Its much more than just surfing. It's social commentary on life in the sixties. It's a travel-log. It's an adventure story! Finnegan is an international journalist and staff writer for the New Yorker. Korean edition translated by Park Hyeon Ju & Kim Dae Won.



Cold New World


Cold New World
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Author : William Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2010-09-29

Cold New World written by William Finnegan and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-29 with Social Science categories.


From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. “A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time “[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America’s social problems are more serious than we want to believe.”—The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects’ humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World “Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “The most remarkable of William Finnegan’s many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction.”—The Village Voice “Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer



The Light Of Eden Or A Historical Narrative Of The Barbarian Age


The Light Of Eden Or A Historical Narrative Of The Barbarian Age
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Author : Swan Burg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

The Light Of Eden Or A Historical Narrative Of The Barbarian Age written by Swan Burg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Economics categories.




Con A Barbarian


Con A Barbarian
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Author : Ndp Christiansen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-16

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During the time that the supercontinent was splitting apart, the Northern peoples started sailing south, looking to sack, rape and pillage villages where they could. It happened that they landed at a small seaside village, did their sacking, raping and pillaging, then sailed off again. It was some 9 months later that one of the village maidens gave birth to a large baby boy. The yellow straw coloured hair of the baby, the same colour as the Northern raiders, as well as his features, reflected his parentage. Virtually ignored by the villagers, Con was a lonely child who kept to himself. By the time he was 15 years old, he was a huge figure, some 6 feet 4 inches in height, the average height of the villagers being about 5 feet 4 inches, with a mop of yellow hair which cascaded down around his shoulders. His only real enjoyment growing up was sitting listening to villagers tell tales of barbarian heroes fighting off raiders and warlocks single-handed, and saving maidens in distress. Con knew his destiny was to be a great barbarian warrior. Having found a sword with a broken point discarded on the beach by the Northern raiders, he spent most of his days in the forest swinging the sword, chopping branches and imagining they were the heads and limbs of enemies he was cutting off. After he was seen wielding the sword, the villagers held a meeting and then told Con he must leave and find his own way in the world. And so Con, uneducated, with just his sword, a few provisions and no knowledge of the world, set off to find his destiny. Con A Barbarian is a tale of the old barbarian days, the adventures and trials Con goes through after being conned by a travel agency advertisement. This is an easy read for some light escapism back to the days when there were barbarians at the gate.



A Complicated War


A Complicated War
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Author : William Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992

A Complicated War written by William Finnegan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.


Among Africa's suffering is the little- known war in Mozambique, now in its second decade. Finnegan traveled through the country in 1988 to assess the impact of a war waged by guerrillas who are armed and often directed by South Africa. He tells a compelling story of rural misery caused by the war, which in turn offers a fertile ground for its continuation. Finnegan's narrative includes historical background and critical analysis of the Mozambique government whose policies have not created an inclusive framework for the nation. Finnegan is drawn to the conclusion that Mozambique's peasants long have been denied the fruits of peace: first under centuries of Portuguese colonialism; and now as they are exposed to the current war that is destroying their future.



Littell S Living Age


Littell S Living Age
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Author : Eliakim Littell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

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Littell S Living Age


Littell S Living Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

Littell S Living Age written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.