Wide Open Fairways
Subtitle: A Journey Across the Landscapes of Modern Golf
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780803240377
Subjects: Golf courses
Description: 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.--BOOK FLAP.