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, Ivy Название: Best Ever Wordsearch for Kids ISBN: 1398816590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816596 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is a crisis at the farm! Some bales of wool from the sheep shearing have been stolen during the night, and the bad-tempered farmer is threatening to withhold food from all the animals until the theft has been solved.At the request of the Wild Wood Constabulary, the woolly Master Sleuth, Sheared-Locks Holmes, discovers that the caper was an inside job, though his first suspect is subsequently cleared.In a brilliant piece of detective work, and a masterful cross-examination, Sheared-Locks reveals the criminal conspiracy, the animal (and human) culprits are identified, and the case is resolved in poetic style.
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, Ivy Название: Best Ever Knock Knock Jokes for Kids ISBN: 1398816566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816565 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. Using extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers, Community Lost identifies what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Best Ever Sudoku for Kids ISBN: 1398816582 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816589 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. Using extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers, Community Lost identifies what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Brain Twisters: Smart Puzzles ISBN: 1398816647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816640 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Geography Mastery includes all the lesson planning, resources and subject knowledge support needed to deliver every KS1 and KS2 geography lesson in your school. Offering an exciting well-sequenced curriculum, Geography Mastery delivers core knowledge, enables progression and develops key skills that children need for life within and beyond school.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Brain Twisters: Word Search ISBN: 1398816663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816664 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An American Crime and the Birth of the FBI. From the bestselling author of `The Lost City of Z`, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the newly-created FBI`s first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case...
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Best Ever Crosswords for Kids ISBN: 139881654X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816541 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 527.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Now firmly established as one of the leading economics principles texts in the UK and Europe, the sixth edition of Macroeconomics has been fully updated. Much revered for its friendly and accessible approach, emphasis on active learning and unrivalled support resources, this edition features a brand-new chapter on sustainability economics as well as in depth coverage of the impact of globalization, digitization, the gig economy and modern monetary theory.This title is available with MindTap, a flexible online learning solution that provides students with all the tools they need to succeed including an interactive eReader, engaging multimedia, practice questions, assessment materials, revision aids, and analytics to help you track their progress.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Around the World in 80 Activities ISBN: 1398816094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781398816091 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 844.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Finnegan, Ivy Название: Super Fun Knock Knock Joke Book ISBN: 1839408448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839408441 Издательство: Arcturus Рейтинг: Цена: 844.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jack Leywood joins the Canadian Navy and quickly makes a name for himself as a crack student being the first in his class. His luck changes when he discovers the joys of racing sail with one of his ships officers. His temper flares when he and his pal discover a young girl dead of an overdose and the germ of an idea forms he would take on the drug lords of the Union Corse sending heroin ashore in New Brunswick. Then using his racing ketch as a base, his friends join him to begin taking down the yachts dropping off the white death and finally attracts the attention of Charles DeGaulle who decorates him for bravery and the dragons are born.
Автор: Finnegan Delphine Название: Nazboo`s Kazoo! (Shimmer and Shine) ISBN: 0525648275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525648277 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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