Golf Ball

by Harry J. Brown

Book Overview

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628921382
• ISBN13: 9781628921380
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 6.4"