Greater Minnesota (eBook)

Exploring the Land of Sky-Blue Waters

Patrick Hicks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
208 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253073815 (ISBN)

Infos

A witty, wise, and affectionate journey to every corner of the North Star State. After years of living abroad, writer and poet Patrick Hicks returns to Minnesota only to find that his home state feels like a foreign country.

In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, Greater Minnesota is an account of Hicks's discoveries. Half travelogue, half history, and fully delightful in its exploration of new places and people, this book follows Hicks as he ventures to the North Shore, the Iron Range, the Southwest, and even Up North in the dead of winter. As he travels the back roads of the state, he visits the Mayo Clinic, the SPAM Museum, ancient petroglyphs, the US Hockey Hall of Fame, the birthplace of Minnesota Public Radio, a world-class aviation museum hidden on the prairie, a lost forest, the humble start of the Mississippi River, and other stops along the way that are both surprising and intriguing.

Through conversations with people on his travels, Greater Minnesota brings the reader along as he searches for what it means to be a Minnesotan.

Autor

Patrick Hicks grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota, and is an Irish American novelist, poet, and essayist. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is the author of over ten books, including The Commandant of Lubizec and Across the Lake.

Inhalt

From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
Stillwater
North Shore
Saint John's
The Iron Range
Southwest
Mankato
Up North
Southeast
The Great Minnesota Get-Together
Star of the North
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Heartland History
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: American Culture • American History • bemidji • flyover states • Heartland • iron range • Itasca • Land of 10000 Lakes • Mayo Clinic • Memoir • Midwest culture • Midwestern States • midwest history • midwest travel • Minnesota culture • Minnesota State Fair • North Shore • Ojibwe • Paul Bunyan • star of the north • Still Water • Travel writing • Twin Cities • Up North • us history • US travel
• ISBN-13: 9780253073815 / 9780253073815