Oregon Curiosities - 2nd Edition

Informationen zum 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) as well as numerous books on travel in the Pacific Northwest, where she makes her home in Seattle, Washintgon. A regular contributor to National Public Radio, reporting most often on museums and unusual collections, Baskas 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. Klappentext Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Beaver State has to offer!Whether you're a born-and-raised Oregonian, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Oregon Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Harriet Baskas takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Beaver State. ¿ Meet the lovely but carnivorous Darlingtonia californica lily and the ghostly Bandage Man from logger's heaven. ¿ Discover the Best Funky Food Show, where Jell-O is the medium with the message; the Silvy 250, a race in which love seats and recliners get rolling; and an infamous lighthouse known as "Terrible Tilly," where only the dead are welcome to stay.¿ Experience a town with streets full of frogs, an eight-state mac 'n' cheese contest, and the unsettling Oregon Vortex where gravity goes giddy. Zusammenfassung The definitive collection of Oregon's odd! wacky! and most offbeat people! places! and things! for Beaver State residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Baskas, Baskas Harriet
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2010
• EAN: 9780762749713
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-4971-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Curiosities Series; Oregon Curiosities: Quirky Cha; Curiosities Series; Oregon Curiosities: Quirky Cha
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire > Humour, satire, satirical comedy; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HUMOR / General, West, Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Travel & holiday guides, HISTORY / United States / General, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), Pacific, Humour, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Travel and holiday guides, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states