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Essential Books These 3 items are available for $52, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXSCT84)		  
Scotland's Golf Courses  •  Robert Price
GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
A guide to more than 500 golf courses in Scotland -- the birthplace of the sport and still a favorite destination for dedicated duffers. (SCT72, $25.00)		  
Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland  •  James W. Finegan
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2007 •  PAPER  • 288 PAGES
Finegan, the former golf columnist of the Philadelphia Inquirer, takes us on a delightful tour of the great links of Scotland, combining personal anecdote, a history of the game and a character study of the Scots. Thanks to his non-golf-playing wife, there are plenty of detours in to the Scottish countryside. (SCT08, $21.00)		  
Scotland Map M 501  •  Michelin Travel Publications
2003 •  MAP
A clear, colorful map of Scotland at a scale of 1:400,000, with shaded relief showing topographical features. One Side. 62x40 inches. (SCT12, $8.95)		   Scotland Map M 501



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Fodor's Exploring Scotland  •  Gilbert Summers   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With its many photographs, detailed descriptions and practical information, this compact guide covers Scotland in style. (SCT09, $22.00)
 		  
Bernard Darwin on Golf  •  Jeff Silverman  •  Bernard Darwin   • SPORT  •  A collection of essays by the renowned golf writer. (GOL06, $16.95)
 		  
Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas, A Golfer's Pilgrimage to the Courses of Ireland  •  James W. Finegan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this wonderful companion to Finegan's book on Scotland, Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens, the author returns to his native Ireland to explore both golf and the Irish people. (IRE25, $52.00)
 		  
Golf by Design, How To Lower Your Score By Reading The Features Of A Course  •  Robert Trent Jones   • SPORT  •  This nicely illustrated guide to the world's greatest courses provides golfers with insight into nearly every aspect of a course designer's strategic considerations. (GOL23, $21.95)
 		  
Golf in the Kingdom  •  Michael Murphy   • SPORT  •  The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of a classic work on the deeper mysteries of golf, revealed during a round with philosopher/golfer Shivas Irons. (GOL20, $15.00)
 		  
How the Scots Invented the Modern World  •  Arthur Herman   • HISTORY  •  Herman argues convincingly in this bestseller that many of the greatest political, intellectual and technological innovations of the 18th and 19th centuries came from the Scots. (SCT65, $16.00)
 		  
Links Golf, The Inside Story  •  Paul Daley   • SPORT  •  Focusing on the links of Great Britain and Ireland, Daley provides a clear view of such aspects of golf course construction as bunkering, burns, and blind shots and a discussion of the styles and the large number of links courses. (GOL22, $35.00)
 		  
Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots and Bad Lies  •  Charles Lindsay  •  John Updike   • SPORT  •  A lighthearted collection of photographs of the world's great golf courses and many ways one can lose a ball. With a forward by John Updike. (GOL04, $29.99)
 		  
Scotland's Gift, How America Discovered Golf  •  Charles Blair Macdonald   • SPORT  •  Originally published in 1928, this history of the introduction of golf to the United States illuminates the way the Scots originally played the game and how it has changed in the new locale. (GOL21, $26.95)
 		  
Scotland, A Concise History  •  Fitzroy MacLean  •  Magnus Linklater   • HISTORY  •  With 250 well-integrated illustrations, this lively and authoritative history covers the romantic figures and bloody battles from the early clans up to the present. (SCT15, $19.95)
 		  
Stone Voices, The Search for Scotland  •  Neal Ascherson   • HISTORY  •  Ascherson writes with verve and insight on the centuries-old impulse toward nationhood in Scotland in this absorbing portrait, interweaving history with archaeology, myth and his own interviews and travels. (SCT66, $27.00)
 		  
The Book of Golfers, A Biographical History of the Royal & Ancient Game  •  Danile Wexler   • SPORT  •  A compelling and well-researched overview of the sport by a leading golf historian. (GOL07, $34.95)
 		  
The Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland  •  Hugh Palmer   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Not just drop-dead beautiful, this lavishly illustrated compendium includes suggestions for historic hamlets, market towns, castles and estates. With notes on travel, hotels, restaurants and accommodations. (SCT81, $40.00)
 		  
The Spirit of St. Andrews  •  Alister MacKenzie  •  Robert Tyre Jones   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A discussion of the history, equipment and architecture of golf by the celebrated golf course designer. (GEN80, $19.00)
 		  
Final Rounds, A Father, a Son, the Golf Journey of a Lifetime  •  James Dodson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The author's trip with his father to the great courses of Scotland and England. (GOL02, $16.00)
 		  
The Crofter and the Laird  •  John McPhee   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  McPhee packs up his family and returns for a year to his ancestral land on the Isle of Colonsay in this lyrical, appreciative portrait of place and traditional ways of life in the Hebrides. (SCT23, $16.00)
 		  
44 Scotland Street  •  Alexander McCall Smith   • LITERATURE  •  In this witty novel, McCall Smith traces the lives and eccentricities of the men and women living in an Edinburgh boarding house. (SCT83, $15.00)
 		  
Waverly  •  Sir Walter Scott   • LITERATURE  •  Scott drew on childhood tales for this richly detailed portrait of the Highland and Lowland Scots, culminating with the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charles at the 1746 Battle of Culloden. (SCT119, $12.95)
 		  
Birds of Europe  •  Lars Svensson   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, the second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps. (FG47, $29.95)
 		  
 
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