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La vida en Saint Petersburg, una ciudad ficticia inspirada en la cuidad natal del autor situada al suroeste de Estados Unidos, a orillas del río Mississippi, es tan plácida que incluso puede resultar aburrida. Tom es criado por su tía Polly, que lo quiere de corazón, pero que lo somete a una disciplina que a él se le hace absurda y desagradable. Es un muchacho curioso y travieso, capaz de sacar provecho a cualquier hecho cotidiano, como pintar una valla, o no tan cotidiano, como perseguir a un malvado asesino e ir en busca de un tesoro escondido en una cueva, acompañado de su inseparable amigo Huck.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2016 WINNER OF THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life. William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond. Finnegan describes the edgy yet enduring brotherhood forged among the swell of the surf; and recalling his own apprenticeship to the world's most famous and challenging waves, he considers the intense relationship formed between man, board and water. Barbarian Days is an old-school adventure story, a social history, an extraordinary exploration of one man's gradual mastering of an exacting and little-understood art. It is a memoir of dangerous obsession and enchantment.