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Barbarian Days
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Last discussed Aug 30, 2026
A memoir by William Finnegan, a New Yorker staff writer, about his lifelong passion for surfing around the world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
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"One book I really recommend to people is Barbarian Days by William Finnegan. It's about the life of a man who is a New Yorker reporter, but how he fell in love with surfing as his passion. The thing I took away from the book is that one can be dee..."
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