The 65th edition to the Classics of Golf Library
This is the fourth and last of Bernard Darwin’s autobiographical works, written as he approached the age of eighty. Herbert W. Wind considers it Darwin’s masterpiece and is the only one of the four books officially called an autobiography. It tells you how a genius, whose family changed history through scientific advances (he was the grandson of the evolutionist Charles Darwin), found his destiny in the game of golf and golf writing.
Darwin has been a shaper of the game of golf as it emerged from its small, parochial Scottish antecedents and spread around the world. He wanted not only to educate the public about this splendid new game but to convey to anyone who would listen his love and passion for it. He became a golf writer when the job did not exist. He invented it and then he perfected it.
In Fred, Darwin writes about the golf books he read growing up – ‘The Art of Golf,’ by Sir Walter Simpson, a great and humorous philosopher, and the Badminton Library edited and written by Horace Hutchinson,’ whom he goes on to call ‘a golfing prophet.’ (Both of these books are available in the Classics of Golf library)
Herbert Warren Wind wrote in 1956 for Sports Illustrated: "Thanks to Bernard, golf has acquired the sturdiest literature of any gameâ?¦Bernard never tried to bowl his readers over with exhibitions of his brilliance or power, but his writing, modest and restrained as it is, has a quiet magic and a terrific staying power. Though never intended to be literature, it is." Bernard Darwin was a firm believer that the smaller the ball, the better the story.
Publisher Michael Beckerich and Classics of Golf faithfully publish a cost-effective, attractive library of 66 volumes of the works of Bernard Darwin, Herbert Warren Wind, Bobby Jones and many significant authors keeping in print the great literature and history of golf.
Format: Hardcover Size: 5X7 Pages: 256 ISBN: 0-940889-62-6
Price: $29.00
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