Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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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, and Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life 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 friendships forged in challenging waves.

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography

  • Hardcover
  • 464 pages
  • 6.5 x 9.6 inches
  • Published by Rizzoli