Surfmen and Shipwrecks: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island, Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray
Автор: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life ISBN: 0143109391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780143109396 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1747.00 р. 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: Wiley Steve Название: The Fairytale Chicago of Francesca Finnegan ISBN: 0998149217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998149219 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3677.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth, Horton Robin Название: Modes of Thought in Western and Non-Western Societies ISBN: 1498242421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498242424 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10070.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray Название: Croatoan: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island ISBN: 1597151165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597151160 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Living in the shadow of the mighty Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, miles from the village, Ellie, Luke and Blake exist in a world of spirits, mystical wolves, and stories told by their grandfather, the keeper of the lighthouse. In this five volume series, the three children of the Jennette family travel back in time to discover the origin of their ancestors and the events that shaped the civilization of Cape Hatteras Island. Throughout the series, islanders live as they did when only an occcasional mail boat kept them connected to the rest of the world----before a bridge linked the island to the mainland, before tourists flocked to the area during the summer season, and before the government became involved in managing the land. Isolated from others, they created a life of comfort and community, one that is long lost. In each subsequent volume, the Lighthouse Kids meet the people and experiencce the events that gradually transformed Cape Hatteras Island to the popular resort area it is today.
In Croatoan, with their wolves as protectors, the trio is transported back to the late 1500's to live with Manteo, the son of the chief of the Croatoan Indians. Taking part in the Native American way of life, they learn to hunt for food, participate in tribal ceremonies, and even take an adventurous trip to the mainland, to extract the first English colony from the hostile indians living across the water from Hatteras Island. This colony historically has been dubbed "The Lost Colony." Through Weroansquoa, the chieftress of the Croatoan Indians, Ellie learns to tap into her spiritual powers. These powers are retained throughout the series of five books on the history of Cape Hatteras. The gifts are used in all the future exploits and adventures as one travels through time to discover the history of this island.
Автор: Finnegan, Sean Название: Consecrations, blessings and prayers ISBN: 1786220857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786220851 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5518.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive collection offers ready-made short pastoral liturgies for hundreds of occasions. It includes blessings for a wide range of personal, family, church and civic occasions; house blessings; blessings of everyday objects and activities, and for occasions throughout the church and the school year.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Fiji`s Music ISBN: 0244333556 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780244333553 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2708.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Time for the World to Learn from Africa ISBN: 1911221213 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911221210 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4148.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Название: Island at War: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island ISBN: 0578465663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578465661 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Jeanette Gray finnegan Jr., a tenth generation islander, completes the final book in the five book historical fiction series on the History of Cape Hatteras Island. Book one, CROATOAN, Book two LEGENDS AND LORE, Book three PIRATES and Book four, SURFMEN AND SHIPWRECKS skillfully narrates the earlier Adventures of The Lighthouse Kids. Book five gives an account of island participation in all wars fought by the United States from the English occupation in 1598 until 1945.
One would think that Hatteras would have little or no involvement in wars fought by the mainland. however, history recounts the importance of this island located thirty miles out to sea from the continent.This strip of land, twenty six miles in length and less than a mile wide in most places. stood as a buffer, protecting seven rivers leading to the interior of the country.
Whorever breached this strategic outlook, dominated the middle of the mainland of America. These are stories of the contest between island inhabitants and the mighty powers of Europe attempting to control entrance to the belly of the country.
The book begins with the Indian Wars, and ends with the unbelievable assualt by the Nazi war machine eight miles from the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse during the first six months of 1942. Nineteen U-Boats were in contest with the local fishermen, surfmen, and the ROPER, only destroyer available to help fight the subs. Islanders were wating until the Americans could manufacture the planes and ships necessary to protect these waters. And, when they did the war quickly changed in our favor.
Diamond Shoals is called the Graveyard of the Atlantic, partly due to the hundreds of Merchant ships resting there as a result of torpedoes fired during that six month period. The book tells the conflict of all involved, both islanders and foes. When, "it was just us."
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray Название: Pirates: Spirits of Cape Htteras Island ISBN: 1597151424 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597151429 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan Jr Jeanette Gray Название: Legends and Lore: Spirits of Cape Hatteras Island ISBN: 1597151173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597151177 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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