The third coast : sailors, strippers, fishermen, folksingers, long-haired Ojibway painters, and God-save-the-Queen monarchists of the Great Lakes /

Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it? Largely associated with the Midwest, the Great Lakes region actually has a culture that transcends the border b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McClelland, Ted
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
McClelland, Ted > Travel > Great Lakes Region (North America)
McClelland, Ted.
TRAVEL > United States > Midwest > East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
TRAVEL > United States > Midwest > General.
TRAVEL > United States > Midwest > West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)
Manners and customs.
Travel.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Description and travel.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Social life and customs.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > Biography > Anecdotes.
Great Lakes Region (North America) > History, Local.
Lake States > History, Local.
Ontario > History, Local.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Descriptions et voyages.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Biographies > Anecdotes.
Grands Lacs, Région des (Amérique du Nord) > Histoire locale.
États des Grands Lacs (États-Unis) > Histoire locale.
Great Lakes Region.
Lake States.
Ontario.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
Local history.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Chronicling the author's 10,000-mile "Great Lakes Circle Tour," this travel memoir seeks to answer a burning question: Is there a Great Lakes culture, and if so, what is it? Largely associated with the Midwest, the Great Lakes region actually has a culture that transcends the border between the United States and Canada. United by a love of encased meats, hockey, beer, snowmobiling, deer hunting, and classic-rock power ballads, the folks in Detroit have more in common with citizens in Windsor, Ontario, than those in Wichita, Kansas-while Toronto residents have more in common with Chicagoans tha
Notas:"Some of the material in this book was originally published in Gapers block, the Chicago reader, True north, and Stop smiling"--Title page verso
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781569765043
1569765049
1306033195
9781306033190

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