A Course Called Ireland
A Long Walk in Search of a Country, a Pint, and the Next Tee
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · February 2, 2010
The hysterical story bestseller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods.
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- Who it’s for
- An Irish golf trek pairs seaside holes with family roots, humor, and a changing country.
- Themes
- Golf and travel, Family roots, Ireland's economic change
- Genres
- Golf, Ireland Travel, Personal Memoirs
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The hysterical story bestseller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip.
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Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father has taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawn on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it-on foot. A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland. Along the way, he searches out his family's roots, discovers that a once-poor country has been transformed by an economic boom, and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than Irish sand traps are Irish pubs.
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An Irish golf trek pairs seaside holes with family roots, humor, and a changing country.
Come here for
- Golf and long-distance walking in unusually close company
- Family roots beside Ireland’s changing fortunes
Expect
- Sixteen weeks playing seaside holes on foot
- Humor, pubs, and a few stubborn sand traps
Where it sits
| Ireland Travel | 61% |
|---|---|
| Personal Memoirs | 50% |
| Golf | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Golf
- Ireland Travel
- Travel Writing
- Authors
- Tom Coyne
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 2, 2010
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Golf and travel · Family roots · Ireland's economic change
- Reading lane
- Golf