Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by Harriet Baskas
Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

Washington Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by Harriet Baskas

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Overview

The definitive collection of Washington's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Washington residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762769001
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/12/2011
Series: Curiosities Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

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).

Her other books include:
Washington Curiosities, 1 (2004, The Globe Pequot Press)Oregon Curiosities, 1 (2007, GPP)
Museums of the Northwest (1999, Sasquatch Books)
Atomic Marbles and Branding Irons:A Guide to Museums, Collections, and Roadside Curiosities in Washington and Oregon,with Adam Woog (1993, Sasquatch Books)

Baskas is a regular contributor to National Public Radio, reporting most often on museums and unusual collections and 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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Seattle
Puget Sound
Olympic Peninsula and Coast
North and Northwest
South and Southwest
Eastern Washington
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