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Why are there no Travel Books about Detroit?
Everytime I have ever been to a bookstore, I have never seen a travel book about Detroit. I see travel books about cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and Boston but I have always wonder why is the no travel books about Detroit? After all, Detroit is a major city in the United States.
I use to live in Metro Detrot for 20 Years and I have never seen a published travel book about Detroit.
Detroit is a major city, and there has to be books out there on it. Here I found 2 in about 10 seconds:
http://www.amazon.com/Detroit-Almanac-Free-Press/dp/0937247340/sr=8-10/qid=1159051798/ref=pd_bbs_10/102-6530716-5996903?ie=UTF8&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/American-City-Architecture-1845-2005-Painted/dp/0814332706/sr=8-8/qid=1159051798/ref=pd_bbs_8/102-6530716-5996903?ie=UTF8&s=books
Bookstore Road Trip – Part 2 (LA)
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Kindred (Bluestreak) $6.75 Kindred utilizes the devices of science fiction in order to answer the question how could anybody be a slave? A woman from thetwentieth century, Dana is repeatedly brought back in time by herslave-owning ancestor Rufus when his life is endangered. She chooses tosave him, knowing that because of her actions a free-born black womanwill eventually become his slave and her own grandmother. When forced… |
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Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology (Library of America) $8.00 Los Angeles has always been a place of paradisal promise and apocalyptic undercurrents. Simone de Beauvoir saw a kaleidoscopic “hall of mirrors,” Aldous Huxley a “city of dreadful joy.” Jack Kerouac found a “huge desert encampment,” David Thomson imagined “Marilyn Monroe, fifty miles long, lying on her side, half-buried on a ridge of crumbling rock.” In Writing Los Angeles, The Library of Ameri… |
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The Midwesterner’s Guide to Living in L.A. $3.00 ‘Do you have a job?!’ How many people didn’t blurt this out as soon as you told them you were moving to L.A.? Surprisingly, having a job is only half the battle a newcomer to Los Angeles will face. The Midwesterner’s Guide to Living in L.A. is ripe with invaluable tips on the numerous differences in day-to-day existence between life in the Midwest and the fast-paced experience of living and workin… |