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"...for golf’s soul surfers, Golf in the Kingdom is holy scripture." -- Golf A spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy—John Updike called this unique novel “a golf classic if any exists in our day.” Now for the 50th anniversary, a beautiful new design and an introduction from Michael Murphy himself Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, Michael Murphy is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by “true gravity.” A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush’s thirteenth fairway—the one they call Lucifer’s Rug. “A masterpiece on the mysticism of golf.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A fascination . . . Golf in the Kingdom should have a long and prosperous life.” —Joseph Campbell
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- Titul
- Golf in the Kingdom
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Michael Murphy
- Vydavateľ
- Delta
- Rok vydania
- 1972
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Série
- Kategórie
- Štítky
- Beletria, Filozofická tematika, Šport, Spiritualita, Kultúra a spoločnosť, India, Škótsko, Mystika, Bestsellery, Golf
- Prvé vydanie
- 1972
- Pôvodný názov
- Golf in the Kingdom
- Hodnotenie
- 3,7 z 5
- Anotácia
- "...for golf’s soul surfers, Golf in the Kingdom is holy scripture." -- Golf A spiritual journey, a lush travelogue, a parable of sports and philosophy—John Updike called this unique novel “a golf classic if any exists in our day.” Now for the 50th anniversary, a beautiful new design and an introduction from Michael Murphy himself Paired with a mysterious teacher named Shivas Irons, Michael Murphy is led through a round of phenomenal golf, swept into a world where extraordinary powers are unleashed in a backswing governed by “true gravity.” A night of adventure and revelation follows, and leads to a glimpse of Seamus MacDuff, the holy man who haunts a ravine off Burningbush’s thirteenth fairway—the one they call Lucifer’s Rug. “A masterpiece on the mysticism of golf.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A fascination . . . Golf in the Kingdom should have a long and prosperous life.” —Joseph Campbell