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Golf-Ing

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Golf-Ing
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Henry Beard
By (author) Roy McKie
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:304
Dimensions(mm): Height 111,Width 113
Category/GenreCartoons and comic strips
Golf
ISBN/Barcode 9780761123705
ClassificationsDewey:796.3520207
Audience
General
Edition Revised edition
Illustrations illustrations

Publishing Details

Publisher Workman Publishing
Imprint Workman Publishing
Publication Date 1 September 2001
Publication Country United States

Description

Two of the funniest books ever published on their respective subjects - SAILING and GOLFING - are back. And better than ever. Repackaged in the irresistibly chunky, compulsively readable small square book format, each is a perfect gift for a new generation of obsessives. GOLFING is even funnier than when it was originally published. Now an avid golfer, Henry Beard brings the same passion for improvement to writing about golf as he does to playing it, and he's both added new definitions and rewritten many others. Like whiff - "Familiar term widely misused to describe particularly fast and powerful style of practice swing intentionally made directly over the ball." A classic, SAILING is "...quite simply the funniest book I have ever read" - William F. Buckley Jr. From ahoy - "The first in a series of four-letter words commonly exchanged by skippers as their boats approach each other" to zephyr - "A warm, pleasant breeze named after the mythical Greed god of wishful thinking, false hopes and unreliable forecasts" - it brings new meaning to the things said at sea.

Author Biography

Henry Beard is the cofounder of National Lampoon. He is also the author of Golfing, Sailing and other well-defined dictionaries, as well as Zen for Cats, The Official Exceptions to the Rules of Golf and dozens of other books. Roy McKie illustrated all the well-defined dictionaries. He also illustrated many Dr. Seuss Beginning books, which have over 20 million copies in print.