Barbarian Days
By William Finnegan
464 pages;
Penguin Press
William Finnegan's irresistible memoir chronicles his Technicolor
trek through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia and South Africa in search of
yet another great wave. But his bohemian lifestyle—bunking with locals, working
odd jobs to buy his next surfboard, dropping acid—becomes more than simply
island-hopping after he stumbles across a township school in desperate need of
teachers.
— Sarah Meyer
