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The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-The-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes
Winner:Great Lakes Book Awards -General (2008)
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 than Montreal's population. Much more than a typical armchair travel book, this humorous cultural exploration is filled with quirky people and unusual places that prove the obscure is far more interesting than the well known.
Book Details
- Publisher: Chicago Review Press
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 2008
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.24in - 6.54in - 1.05in - 1.28lb
- EAN: 9781556527210
- Categories: • United States - Midwest - General• Essays & Travelogues
About the Author
Ted McClelland is the author of Horseplayers: Life at the Track, a senior editor at Lake magazine, and a writer who has contributed to Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Salon.com, Slate.com, and Utne Reader.
Praise for this book
"[A] hearty, good-natured homage." --Booklist
"The author struts an extensive knowledge of the area that makes this a must for fans of travel literature." --Kirkus Reviews
Captures a slice of North Americana with the precision of a Walker Evans photograph, and sentences worthy of John McPhee." --Neal Pollack, author, Alternadad
"To [Ted McClelland], the North is a state of mind, and it is the Great Lakes region that fuels his imagination." --Chicago Tribune
"Is there a Great Lakes culture? Damned straight, and Ted McClelland nails it." --Jerry Dennis, author, The Living Great Lakes and A Place on the Water
"The Third Coast is much like the place it chronicles: interesting, not at all ostentatious, and a great amount of fun." --Tom Bissell, author, The Father of All Things
"[A] quirky travelogue." --Kenosha News
"A very good read. I learned more about the Great Lakes region from it than I had in a half century of living in Michigan." --The Bay City Times