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Автор: Finnegan William
Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**

"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

Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. 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, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days 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 male friendships forged in challenging waves.

Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly--he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui--is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.

Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, an intellectual autobiography, a social history, a literary road movie, and an extraordinary exploration of the gradual mastering of an exacting, little-understood art.

Praise for Barbarian Days

"Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . But on a more fundamental level, Barbarian Days offers a clear-eyed vision of American boyhood. Like Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, it is a sympathetic examination of what happens when literary ideas of freedom and purity take hold of a young mind and fling his body out into the far reaches of the world."--The New York Times Magazine

"Incandescent . . . I'd sooner press this book upon on a nonsurfer, in part because nothing I've read so accurately describes the feeling of being stoked or the despair of being held under. . . . But] it's also about a writer's life and, even more generally, a quester's life, more carefully observed and precisely rendered than any I've read in a long time."--Los Angeles Times

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: He Came All So Stille; The Home Anthology of Beautiful Verse
ISBN: 1291703845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291703849
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 31760.00 T
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Описание: A lovely collection of beautiful verse edited by Ruth Finnegan for the home, church or school. Easy-read large print for new and old. A treasury of wisdom and art for all ages

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Ruth Finnegan Anthropologist
ISBN: 1329916840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781329916845
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Описание: A short account of the life and writings of the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memoir, part reference.

Автор: Ruth Finnegan
Название: Where is Language?: An Anthropologist`s Questions on Language, Literature and Performance
ISBN: 1472590929 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472590923
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech? For too long, ethnographic, aesthetic and sociolinguistic studies of language have remained apart from analyses emerging from traditions such as literature and performance. Where is Language? argues for a more complex and contextualized understanding of language across this range of disciplines, engaging with key issues, including orality, literacy, narrative, ideology, performance and the human communities in which these take place. Eminent anthropologist Ruth Finnegan draws together a lifetime of ethnographic case studies, reading and personal commentary to explore the roles and nature of language in cultures across the world, from West Africa to the South Pacific. By combining research and reflections, Finnegan discusses the multi-modality of language to provide an account not simply of vocabulary and grammar, but one which questions the importance of cultural settings and the essence of human communication itself.

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Fiji`s Music
ISBN: 0244333556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780244333553
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Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Time for the World to Learn from Africa
ISBN: 1911221213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911221210
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Цена: 27650.00 T
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Автор: Finnegan Ruth, Horton Robin
Название: Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies
ISBN: 1498242421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498242424
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Цена: 67130.00 T
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Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband: Betiina`s Recipe Book
ISBN: 1291890548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291890549
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Цена: 39830.00 T
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Описание: An undiscovered treasure: the romance of cookery first published in America in 1911. A cross between the ease of quick-cook and the solidity and care of Mrs Beaton, interspersed with delicious period dialogue. As hard to put down as a novel. And who knew the Victorian cooks had such a ranges of dishes AND ingredients? Callender cooking.

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Beyond the Walls: Researchers Outside the University Volume 2
ISBN: 1291463089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291463088
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Описание: does researching take place only in the universities? and what about the opportunities opened up by the web? you read it first here! Callender Academic

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Short Story Writing
ISBN: 129145392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291453928
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Описание: A gathering of the best stories from past centuries, with an illuminating introduction Callender Academic

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: Literacy and Orality
ISBN: 1291995412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291995411
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Цена: 42650.00 T
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Описание: An enlarged and updated edition of Ruth Finnegan`s authoritative and fully evidenced classic., dedicated to the great Africanist scholar and lifelong friend of the Somali people ` Goosh` Andrzejewski.

Автор: Finnegan Ruth
Название: The Fantastical Children of Pond Kingdom
ISBN: 1911221108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911221104
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Описание:

Once upon a time in the long long ago there were two children. One was poor. One was rich. One was very good at sums. The other one was not. But they liked each other a lot. And all the time they were playing together... A fairytale retold by Ruth Finnegan, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes.