Washington Curiosities (eBook)

Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Harriet Baskas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011 | 3., Third Edition
352 Seiten
Globe Pequot Press (Verlag)
978-0-7627-6900-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The definitive collection of Washington's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, forWashingtonresidents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Autor

Harriet Baskas is a writer and an award-winning radio producer. She reviews airports for Expedia.com and is a regular travel columnist for USATODAY.com, writing about airports and travel etiquette. She is the author of Stuck at the Airport (2001, Fireside/Simon & Schuster). Her other books include:Washington Curiosities, 1 (2004, The Globe Pequot Press)Oregon Curiosities, 1 (2007, GPP)Museums of the Northwest (1999, Sasquatch Books)Atomic Marbles and Branding Irons: A Guide to Museums, Collections, and Roadside Curiosities in Washington and Oregon, with Adam Woog (1993, Sasquatch Books)Baskas is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, reporting most often on museums and unusual collections and is currently finishing up a twenty-six-part series, The Hidden Treasures Radio Project, all about objects and collections in museums that the public rarely gets to see.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsIntroductionSeattlePuget SoundOlympic Peninsula and CoastNorth and NorthwestSouth and SouthwestEastern Washington

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Curiosities Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Pacific • Pacific Northwest • Washington • West
• ISBN-10: 0-7627-6900-9 / 0762769009
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7627-6900-1 / 9780762769001