Part travelogue, part meditation on the great game of golf, In Search of Burningbush is a beautifully written true-life story of an unlikely friendship between two men with nothing in common, save a consuming and abiding passion for the links. Michael is a successful young journalist: educated, traveled, and sophisticated. Don deals poker at a small casino, is well into middle age, and suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease that's left him permanently crippled and eternally fragile. In difficult ...
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Part travelogue, part meditation on the great game of golf, In Search of Burningbush is a beautifully written true-life story of an unlikely friendship between two men with nothing in common, save a consuming and abiding passion for the links. Michael is a successful young journalist: educated, traveled, and sophisticated. Don deals poker at a small casino, is well into middle age, and suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease that's left him permanently crippled and eternally fragile. In difficult moments in both of their personal lives, the two men partner for a two-week golfing excursion through the game's native Scotland (golfers' Mecca). In search of the mystical course Burningbush, made legendary by Michael Murphy's best-selling novel Golf in the Kingdom, (a book that has inspired legions of fanatical acolytes, Don included) Michael and Don embark on a self-actualizing journey of the mind, body, and spirit. For Michael, the trip is a difficult return to places he's loved to visit in happier times, with amorous companions. It's Don's first trip out of the country, and with every step he takes through the hilly countryside, his delicate body grows increasin
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. A very good first edition hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket. No markings. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.
