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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1. Verfasser: McClelland, Ted
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, ©2008.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:"Some of the material in this book was originally published in Gapers block, the Chicago reader, True north, and Stop smiling"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781569765043
1569765049
1306033195
9781306033190

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