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Results for 'william finnegan'
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Barbarian Days
A Surfing LifeA deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer
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Giorni selvaggi. Una vita sulle onde
Il surf è un'arte dai molti paradossi, in cui il desiderio di mostrarsi non è mai separato da quello di essere soli con le onde e sparire dietro un sipario di schiuma. 'Le onde sono il campo da gioco. Il fine ultimo'. Ma sono anche l'avversario, la nemesi. William Finnegan ha subìto l'incanto del mare fin da bambino, in California, vedendo i surfisti 'danzare sull'acqua'. A tredici anni andrà a vivere ai piedi del cratere di Diamond Head, alle Hawaii. E quell'incanto si trasformerà a poco a poco in una devozione assoluta al dio oceano. A venticinque anni, il suo sogno è di rigenerarsi agli Antipodi e vedere il mondo prima che si trasformi tutto in Los Angeles. Inizia così 'la ricerca', il viaggio dell'Inverno senza fine, la circumnavigazione del globo a caccia di onde. Prima Guam, poi le isole Samoa, il regno di Tonga, l'arcipelago delle Figi, dove scopre il magnifico break di Tavarua, davanti a un lembo di terra assente perfino dalle mappe. Al suo fianco c'è Bryan, il 'figlio della classe operaia' che è andato al funerale di Kerouac. Ultima tappa il Sudafrica dell'apartheid, dove matura una nuova consapevolezza, prima dell'inevitabile ritorno a casa. Ma la ricerca non è ancora finita. Scritto nell'arco di vent'anni e anticipato da un celebre articolo apparso sul 'New Yorker', "Giorni selvaggi" è un racconto di avventure e il diario di un'ossessione, da cui si sprigiona - per la prima volta nella letteratura - il terribile splendore del surf: i suoi codici tribali, lo studio dei venti, la lunga attesa dell'onda. Che è una qualità dell'essere, 'una via' per conoscere sé stessi. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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On All Sides Nowhere
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Años Salvajes
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Dateline Soweto
Travels with Black South African ReportersDocuments the working lives of black South African reporters, caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get.
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A Complicated War
The Harrowing of MozambiqueChallenges the understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique - a naturally rich country - into one of the world's poorest nations. This book combines frontline reporting, personal narrative, political analysis, and scholarship to present a picture of a Mozambique harrowed by local conflicts - ethnic, religious, political and personal.
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Catching Paradise in Hawai'i
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Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)€ 21,95 -
Barbarian Days
A Surfing Life€ 34,95 -
Barbarentage
Vor fünfzig Jahren verfällt William Finnegan dem Surfen. Damals verschafft es ihm Respekt, dann jagt es ihn raus in die Welt - Samoa, Indonesien, Australien, Südafrika -, als Familienvater mit Job beim New Yorker dient es der Flucht vor dem Alltag ... Barbarentage erzählt die Geschichte dieser lebenslangen Leidenschaft, sie handelt vom Fernweh, von wahren Abenteuern und den Versuchen, trotz allem ein Träumer zu bleiben. Ein Buch wie das Meer, atemberaubend schön.
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On Trails
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra Club From a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the world—from invisible ant trails to hiking paths that span continents, from interstate highways to the Internet.While thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Robert Moor began to wonder about the paths that lie beneath our feet: How do they form? Why do some improve over time while others fade? What makes us follow or strike off on our own? Over the course of seven years, Moor traveled the globe, exploring trails of all kinds, from the miniscule to the massive. He learned the tricks of master trail-builders, hunted down long-lost Cherokee trails, and traced the origins of our road networks and the Internet. In each chapter, Moor interweaves his adventures with findings from science, history, philosophy, and nature writing. Throughout, Moor reveals how this single topic—the oft-overlooked trail—sheds new light on a wealth of age-old questions: How does order emerge out of chaos? How did animals first crawl forth from the seas and spread across continents? How has humanity’s relationship with nature and technology shaped world around us? And, ultimately, how does each of us pick a path through life? Moor has the essayist’s gift for making new connections, the adventurer’s love for paths untaken, and the philosopher’s knack for asking big questions. With a breathtaking arc that spans from the dawn of animal life to the digital era, On Trails is a book that makes us see our world, our history, our species, and our ways of life anew.
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Cold New World
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. "A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives."-Time "[William] Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe."-The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects' humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World "Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair."-Los Angeles Times Book Review "The most remarkable of William Finnegan's many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction."-The Village Voice "Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves."-The Philadelphia Inquirer
€ 19,30