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Hicks, Patrick

 
9780253073792: Greater Minnesota: Exploring the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0253073790 ISBN 13 : 9780253073792
Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A witty, wise, and affectionate journey to every corner of the North Star State. After years of living abroad, writer and poet Patrick Hicks returns to Minnesota only to find that his home state feels like a foreign country. Tag along as he explores every corner of Minnesota, including places he'd heard about all his life but never visited. In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, Greater Minnesota is an account of Hicks's discoveries. Half travelogue, half history, and fully delightful in its exploration of new places and people, this book follows Hicks as he ventures to the North Shore, the Iron Range, the Southwest, and even Up North in the dead of winter. As he travels the back roads of the state, he visits the Mayo Clinic, the SPAM Museum, ancient petroglyphs, the US Hockey Hall of Fame, the birthplace of Minnesota Public Radio, a world-class aviation museum hidden on the prairie, a lost forest, the humble beginning of the Mississippi River, and other stops along the way that are both surprising and intriguing. And there's more to be uncovered. Through conversations with hundreds of people in his travels from the Great Minnesota Get-Together to Mankato, Greater Minnesota brings the reader along as he searches for what it really means to be a Minnesotan.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Hicks grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota, and is an Irish American novelist, poet, and essayist. After living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is the author of over ten books, including The Commandant of Lubizec and Across the Lake.

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Éditeur
Indiana University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0253073790
ISBN 13 
9780253073792
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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