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: Finnegan William Название: Barbarian Days ISBN: 1472151410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472151414 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1972.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
Автор: Finnegan Terrence J Название: Shooting the Front ISBN: 0752499548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780752499543 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The First World War demanded revolutionary technology to break the vicious stalemate in which the armies of Europe found themselves as soon as static warfare became established. In the critical world of military intelligence, aviation assumed a vital role through aerial reconnaissance in reinforcing successful decision-making. The demands of warfare not only spurred aviation's development, it led to technological advances in aerial photography, radio intercepts, acoustics and optics that became the foundation for intelligence throughout the twentieth century and to the present day.
Colonel Terry Finnegan's Shooting the Front reviews the entire evolution of Allied aerial photography and photographic interpretation during the Great War, in a text packed with data and based upon meticulous research in archives worldwide. The photographs included are both informative and spectacular, charting perforce the early years of aviation itself. Shooting the Front shows not only how important aerial reconnaissance was to the war effort, but also how it became the foundation for modern-day exploitation of imagery and geospatial intelligence used to guide today's decision makers on global issues, and shaped intelligence work for generations to come.
Автор: Finnegan Ruth Название: Short Story Writing ISBN: 129145392X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291453928 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4305.00 р. 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: Finnegan Ruth Название: Prologues and Prefaces the Insights of Great Minds ISBN: 1291623906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291623901 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5382.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Printed first, thought and penned last., the innermost final thoughts by great thinkers on their world- moving works. Not to be missed. CALLENDER CLASSICS
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, 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 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 Ruth Название: Beyond the Walls: Researchers Outside the University Volume 2 ISBN: 1291463089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781291463088 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4473.00 р. 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
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: Ruth Finnegan Anthropologist ISBN: 1329916840 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781329916845 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3650.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A short account of the life and writings of the English anthropologist Ruth Finnegan FBA. Part memoir, part reference.
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