Book Review: Barbarian Days, A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

In another life Darren Eade might have been a rockstar – probably one off on a tangent chasing a new genre and defining the sound of a generation as a by-product. Or he'd have been one of those pioneering surfers dodging malaria and wild animals as he traipsed through jungles in search of line-ups straight from the doodles on the desks of school-bound surfers. Instead he lives in New Zealand, surfs nearly every day and teaches English at a local school. In his spare time he thinks and writes about surf culture and you can guarantee there will be a soundtrack straight out of the punk, grunge or rap genre playing.