{"product_id":"barbarian-days","title":"Barbarian Days A Surfing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\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. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbarian 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\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","brand":"ADS Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45502836474079,"sku":"9781472151414","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781472151414.jpg?v=1744078118","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/barbarian-days","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}