Wide Open Fairways

Wide Open Fairways
Author: Bradley S. Klein
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1496209842

In golf the playing field is also landscape, where nature and the shaping of it conspire to test athletic prowess. As golf courses move away from the "big business, pristine lawn" approach of recent times, Bradley S. Klein, a leading expert on golf course design and economics, finds much to contemplate, and much to report, in the way these wide-open spaces function as landscapes that inspire us, stimulate our senses, and reveal the special nature of particular places. A meditation on what makes golf courses compelling landscapes, this is also a personal memoir that follows Klein's own unique journey across the golfing terrain, from the Bronx and Long Island suburbia to the American prairie and the Pacific Northwest. Whether discussing Robert Moses and Donald Trump and the making of New York City, or the role of golf in the development of the atomic bomb, or the relevance of Willa Cather to how the game has taken hold in the Nebraska Sandhills, Klein is always looking for the freedom and the meaning of golf's wide-open spaces. And as he searches, he offers a deeply informed and absorbing view of golf courses as cultural markers, linking the game to larger issues of land use, ecology, design, and imagination. Purchase the audio edition.

Reception Tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to George H. Boker

Reception Tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to George H. Boker
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382807025

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia
Author: Russell Frank Weigley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 870
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393016109

In this, the definitive comprehensive history of Philadelphia, the reader will discover a rich and colorful portrait of one of America's most vital, interesting, and illustrious cities.