Three-Stripe Thrills

SHE SURF

SCHNEE VON GESTERN

Fundstücke zur Skikultur. Ein Postkartenbuch

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Alles fährt Ski: Das Postkartenbuch illustriert auf heitere Weise die rasante Entwicklung des Skisports seit den 1950er-Jahren

Was verbindet man mehr mit der Schweiz als Ski! Dieser Tatsache widmet sich der nunmehr vierte Band der beliebten Postkartenbücher, herausgegeben vom Alpinen Museum der Schweiz. Ganz nach der Devise «Alles fährt Ski» bietet Schnee von gestern auf 40 Bildern und anhand von drei Begleittexten einen vielfältigen Einblick in die Sammlung des Museums, die zahlreiche Objekte rund um das Thema Ski sowie Fotografien aus dem Fotoarchiv der Kunstanstalt Brügger, Meiringen (1878–1994), umfasst. Die Kunstanstalt war auf Werbe- und Auftragsfotografie in den Bereichen Tourismus, Hotellerie und Gastronomie spezialisiert und dokumentiert mit ihren Fotografien die rasante Entwicklung der Ski-Freizeitkultur von ihren Anfängen bis zu ihrer Etablierung als Breitensport ab den 1950er-Jahren.

12 x 16.5 cm

Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Barbarian Days

A SURFING LIFE
By WILLIAM FINNEGAN

**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**

“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard.”—Sports Illustrated

Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List 
 
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. 
 
Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses—off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. It immerses the reader in the edgy camaraderie of close male friendships forged in challenging waves.
 
Finnegan shares stories of life in a whites-only gang in a tough school in Honolulu. He shows us a world turned upside down for kids and adults alike by the social upheavals of the 1960s. He details the intricacies of famous waves and his own apprenticeships to them. Youthful folly—he drops LSD while riding huge Honolua Bay, on Maui—is served up with rueful humor. As Finnegan’s travels take him ever farther afield, he discovers the picturesque simplicity of a Samoan fishing village, dissects the sexual politics of Tongan interactions with Americans and Japanese, and navigates the Indonesian black market while nearly succumbing to malaria. Throughout, he surfs, carrying readers with him on rides of harrowing, unprecedented lucidity.
 
Barbarian 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.