North Devon was first recognised as a World Surfing Reserve back in April 2022, but is only receiving formal designation this weekend. It also means the coastline should get more protection from overdevelopment, dredging, erosion and pollution. Non-profit Save the Waves has named 18 miles of Devonshire coastline the UK’s first World Surfing Reserve. The designation aims to promote the area’s surfing heritage and to get more people on a surfboard with the involvement of groups including Wave Wahines, a s urfing club for women, and Wave Project, a surf therapy organisation. The south coast is particularly popular location for surfers, and now the world-renowned waves of north Devon have been awarded official protection. Frantically juggling work and family, he chases his enchantment through Long Island ice storms and obscure corners of Madagascar.We might not always have luscious blue waters or beaming golden sun, but the UK has still managed to build a thriving surf culture over the past six decades. Today, Finnegan’s surfing life is undiminished. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships annealed in challenging waves.īarbarian 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. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa.
Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writerīarbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment.
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