{"product_id":"barbarian-days-9781472151414","title":"Barbarian Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Yorker writer 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarbarian 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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' Sports Illustrated\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Finnegan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49162185736443,"sku":"9781472151414","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/9781472151407.jpg?v=1787026060","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/barbarian-days-9781472151414","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}