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A Guide to 350 Really Strange Places
By Jerome Pohlen
Oddball series
TRAVEL
288 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Formats: Trade Paper, EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket
Trade Paper, $16.99 (US $16.99) (CA $22.99)
ISBN 9781613738498
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (May 2017)
Overview
Indiana often calls itself the Crossroads of the Nation. It's not also perhaps the very nexus of US weirdness. Armed with Oddball Indiana, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Hoosier State, from brain sandwiches to square donuts. Indiana has monuments to Michael Jackson, the comic strip character Joe Palooka, and the World's Largest Egg. It's where Alka-Seltzer and Wonder Bread were invented, where A Christmas Story actually took place, and where the good but angry citizens of Plainfield conspired to dump President Martin Van Buren in a mud puddle. Along with humorous histories and offbeat observations, Oddball Indiana provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 350+ entries.Reviews
"Travel with a twist." —Bloomsbury Review"They run the gamut from cheap and tacky to mildly amusing to downright peculiar." —Associated Press"Reads like a cross between Fodor's and Ripley's Believe It or Not." —The Journal Gazette"What's a vacation without a little off-the-highway adventure?" —Kokomo TribuneAuthor Biography
Jerome Pohlen is an editor and travel writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, Readers Digest, and TimeOut Chicago. He is the author of the Oddball series and Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids among others. He lives in Chicago.May we also suggest...
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