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A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf
Surely golf is a game for posh people, country clubs and networking businessmen, for unfortunate sweaters, politics and trousers?
Andrew Greig grew up in Scotland, where playing golf is as natural as breathing. He sees the game as the great leveller, and has played on the Old course at St Andrews as well as on the miners' courses of Yorkshire.He writes about the different cultural manifestations of the game, the history, the geography, the different social meanings, as well as the subjective experience, the reflections between shots.He plays alone, with friends and brothers, with ghosts.He is looking for the essence of golf, the pure heart of it, which can be found, Andrew Greig believes, on the free 9 hole course on North Ronaldsay.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780753821565
- Author: Andrew Greig
- Pub date: 01.07.07
- RRP: $31.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
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Andrew Greig
Andrew Greig is a poet and novelist. He has published six volumes of poetry (Bloodaxe) and four novels, the most recent of which, That Summer, brought him to a wide readership. He was born in Bannockburn in Scotland and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He lives in Orkney and Sheffield (with his wife the writer Leslie Glaister). Among other things, he is known as the unofficial poet laureate of the mountaineering community and a love of the land characterises much of his work.
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