Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 11650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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, Ivy Название: Puzzle fun: wordsearch for kids ISBN: 1838579648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838579647 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 4920.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book analyzes the subversive power of twentieth-century Polish fiction, showing that it helped to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. The author argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries that conservative, heteronormative ideology depends upon.
Автор: Finnegan Ivy Название: Awesome adventure activity book ISBN: 1838579567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838579562 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 4920.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education`s institutional goals. Considering power, timelines, colonial structures, inclusion and exclusion, research, community engagement, and student learning outcomes, the authors examine devising in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. 34 b&w illus.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Animal Wordsearch ISBN: 1838579664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838579661 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 4920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book will help you sell more. Over 30 years, Conor Kenny has learnt to sell largely by making mistakes and learning what makes people buy. First published as SALES TALES, HOW TO SELL is based on his personal experience in pursuit of sales excellence. These are real stories that will help you to be a better sales person and make more sales.
Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ISBN: 1594203474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594203473 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 17130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography** A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
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 entirely: 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 annealed in challenging waves.
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whitesonly gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. 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. He and a buddy, their knapsacks crammed with reef charts, bushwhack through Polynesia. They discover, while camping on an uninhabited island in Fiji, one of the world's greatest waves. As Finnegan's travels take him ever farther afield, he becomes an improbable anthropologist: unpicking the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissecting the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, navigating 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. Today, Finnegan's surfing life is undiminished. Frantically juggling work and family, he chases his enchantment through Long Island ice storms and obscure corners of Madagascar.
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray Название: Legends and Lore: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island ISBN: 1597151173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597151177 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband: Betiina`s Recipe Book ISBN: 1291890548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291890549 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 39830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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: Short Story Writing ISBN: 129145392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291453928 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A gathering of the best stories from past centuries, with an illuminating introduction Callender Academic
Автор: Collins Timothy Название: Memories of Santa Claus: Louis Finnegan ISBN: 0997787317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780997787313 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 17230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ivy Название: Super wordsearch for kids ISBN: 1838579621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838579623 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5270.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Theresa Welford`s Trans-Atlantic Connections: The Movement and New Formalism is the first book to explore the important connections between the brash young British writers who coalesced into a controversial poetic and critical movement in the 1950s and the brash young American writers who coalesced into an equally controversial movement in the 1980s.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Beyond the Walls: Researchers Outside the University Volume 2 ISBN: 1291463089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291463088 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. 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
