Distant Greens - Sochaczewski, Paul Spencer
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Distant Greens travels to the highest golf course in the world, where breathless Tibetan precepts come face to face with the oxymoron of Indian military intelligence. To a golf course in the Amazon rainforest, near the source of rubber, which revolutionized the game. To the Middle Kingdom, to examine claims that it was the Chinese, and not the Scots, who invented golf. And to a volcanic Indonesian course where the Mermaid Queen ensures that "her" sultan always has good weather when he plays. Distant Greens also travels into the soul of golf, the rituals, the belief that a…mehr

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Distant Greens travels to the highest golf course in the world, where breathless Tibetan precepts come face to face with the oxymoron of Indian military intelligence. To a golf course in the Amazon rainforest, near the source of rubber, which revolutionized the game. To the Middle Kingdom, to examine claims that it was the Chinese, and not the Scots, who invented golf. And to a volcanic Indonesian course where the Mermaid Queen ensures that "her" sultan always has good weather when he plays. Distant Greens also travels into the soul of golf, the rituals, the belief that a tetrachaidecohedron-dimple-pattern can make a difference. Why can throwing junk-shop 4-irons provide an insight into the soul? What does a Zen priest in Japan hope to teach his acolyte golfers? Why do people cheat? Why do golfers remember the bad shots instead of the good shots? And why is golf more important, to some folks, than sex? What is the future of golf? Can golf and nature support each other? What can golfers do to ensure that their golf course is environmentally responsible? And what happened when Jesus, Moses, and Mohammed played a round?
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski has written 12 books and has had some 600 by-lined articles published in major international publications, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, CNN Traveller, Geographical, Reader's Digest, and Travel and Leisure. Paul has lived and worked in some 80 countries. He served in the United States Peace Corps in Sarawak, Malaysia (on the island of Borneo), and subsequently lived in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Switzerland. While with WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature International, Paul created international campaigns to protect rainforests, wetlands, plants, and biological diversity. He walks his hilly home course (Maison Blanche Golf Club, near Geneva, Switzerland) and carries his clubs. He has a lucky Ganesha charm. Several, in fact. Well, actually, a few hundred.