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If you ever suspected America was wacky, Eccentric America provides the proof. This blissfully weird travel guide contains 354 uniquely entertaining pages jam-packed with everything that's oddball, eerie, crazed and madcap about the great US of A.
The first chapters describe what counts as "eccentric" (Friedman's definition stretches to take in the anarchic, the radical, and the thrillingly dull). After a brief diversion, which describes particularly eccentric people (such as the man who built a replica Holy Land out of cold cream jars), eccentric sports (think concrete canoeing, or rubber-duck races) and eccentric groups (Geek Pride anyone?), she gets to the meat of her peculiarity platter, a gazetteer where America's fruitcakes, wackos, nutters and heroic bores, and the weird places and events for which they are responsible, are listed and annotated state by state. This invaluable section is thus the place to go if you want to know about the Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum (New York), or the Emma Crawford Coffin Races (Colorado). As you might expect, California and the Mid-West feature strongly, but the East Coast does surprisingly well too. Who in their right mind could resist Jack Mason's New Jersey Bar, "Penis Bones"? Or the Lobster Taxis of Bar Harbor, Massachusetts? Or the World Grits Festival of Little St George, South Carolina?
Some travel guides are such fun they are worth reading in their own right; this is, quite definitely, one of them. --Sean Thomas
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Everything in this extraordinary book is testimony to the fun that author Jan Friedman has had in its compilation. Where else would you encounter a woman who has built her business on ducks wearing diapers? Or a junk modeller legally married to one of his junk robots? Discovering eccentric characters, past and present, and putting on the map the most bizarre events that the USA can offer, Jan has put together an offbeat region-by-region guide to one of the most varied and popular holiday destinations worldwide.
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