Barbarian days a surfing life]
(Audiobook CD)
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Published
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc., [2015].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged.
ISBN
9781511356756, 1511356758
Physical Desc
15 audio discs (18 hr., 13 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc., [2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
ISBN
9781511356756, 1511356758
Notes
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Title from web page.
General Note
Compact discs.
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Read by the author.
Description
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. Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites only gang in a tough school in Honolulu even while his closest friend was a Hawaiian surfer. 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.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Morris County Library - Adult Media | 797.32 FIN | Available |
Randolph Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks | CD 797.32 FIN | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Finnegan, W. (2015). Barbarian days: a surfing life] (Unabridged.). Brilliance Audio, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Finnegan, William. 2015. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life]. Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life] Brilliance Audio, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Finnegan, William. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life] Unabridged., Brilliance Audio, Inc., 2015.
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