Overview
Bernard Darwin could easily have settled into a privileged life as a respected lawyer, one who also just happened to be the grandson of Charles Darwin. But his conventional upbringing didn't prevent him from choosing a different path, abandoning the relative security of the legal profession to follow his first and only passion - the game of golf. While Darwin was no slouch on the links - he was captain of his golf team at Cambridge and twice reached the semifinals of the British Amateur Championships - he achieved far greater notoriety with his pen than with his club. This collection gathers the finest of Darwin's writing, and is a celebration of a life devoted to a love of the game of golf.
Full Product Details
Author: Bernard Darwin ,
Jeff Silverman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.739kg
ISBN: 9781592286287
ISBN 10: 1592286283
Publication Date: 01 December 2004
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
The best golf book ever. -- Travel & Leisure Golf magazine <br> One can open a book of Bernard Darwin's to any page, find any line, and be entertained by it. --Ben Crenshaw<br>
The best golf book ever. -- Travel & Leisure Golf magazine One can open a book of Bernard Darwin's to any page, find any line, and be entertained by it. --Ben Crenshaw Nobody ever knew more about golf than Darwin or wrote about it so intuitively. --Herbert Warren Wind Once he settled on writing about golf, Darwin single-handedly transformed what had never been more than perfunctory journalistic coverage of the sport into lasting literature. --Mark Frost, author of The Greatest Game Ever Played. This delightful book from The Lyons Press is a fine addition to a golfer's library. -- Senior magazine Darwin wrote with such a fine eye that he is often called the greatest golf writer--some would say sportswriter--of all time -- Travel + Leisure magazine
The best golf book ever. -- Travel & Leisure Golf magazine One can open a book of Bernard Darwin's to any page, find any line, and be entertained by it. --Ben Crenshaw
Author Information
Bernard Darwin was the golf game's most revered writer. He was a prominent authority on Charles Dickens and was the editor of T he Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Jeff Silverman, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examine r, has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. He is also editor of The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, Classic Baseball Stories, Lardner on Baseball, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told, Classic Golf Stories, and The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told.
