{"product_id":"barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-9781472151414b","title":"Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBarbarian Days\u003c\/span\u003e is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer)\u003c\/span\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\u003eNew Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBarbarian Days\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBarbarian Days\u003c\/span\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.","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824143110224,"sku":"9781472151414B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781472151414-l.jpg?v=1785895391","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/barbarian-days-a-surfing-life-9781472151414b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}