![]() Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. ![]() He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writerīarbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. ![]()
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