by William Finnegan · LIBROS DEL ASTEROIDE S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416213887
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«Años salvajes» is the autobiography of William Finnegan about his life and surfing, published by Libros del Asteroide in paperback (600 pages, in Spanish).
Finnegan recounts his obsession with surfing from childhood in Hawaii and California and his initiatory journey in the seventies through Samoa, Indonesia, Fiji, Java, Australia and South Africa. Later, as a writer and war correspondent, he keeps searching for the perfect wave in San Francisco, the East Coast and Madeira.
Pulitzer Prize 2016 and William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2016; also Premio Euskadi de Plata and Prix America 2017. Translation by Eduardo Jordá; original: Barbarian Days.
For readers of biography, memoirs and travel writing, and for those who want to approach surfing from the personal experience of its author.
William Finnegan is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of works of international journalism. He has specially addressed issues of racism and conflict in Southern Africa and politics in Mexico and South America, as well as poverty among youth in the United States, and is well known for his writing on surfing.
