The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines

The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines

by Bill Yenne
The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines

The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines

by Bill Yenne

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Overview

"It's enough to wear out several pairs of blue suede shoes."
—The New York Times

This is your guide to hundreds of places where Elvis lived, played, performed, recorded, made movies, attended church, ate, drank or swiveled his hips. Also included are the places where he was born, where he died, where he is buried and the many shrines that exist so his memory will never die.

• Walking and driving tours of Memphis, Tupelo, Las Vegas, Hollywood, and more

• Every home — from Bel Air to Memphis — that Elvis ever owned or lived in

• Every concert hall, auditorium, or other site, in over 30 states, where he performed

• Explanations of the historical significance of the sites

• Addresses are listed, so the sites are easy to find with GPS!

• With its detailed text, The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines is as useful for the armchair traveler as it is for the traveler diving his or her 1959 Cadillac through the streets of Memphis or Las Vegas.

This book is organized regionally, beginning in the South and proceeding to the North and the West. The starting point is Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, and the third stop is in Memphis, Tennessee — 88 miles to the northwest — where he grew up and spent much of his adult life.
This book is organized regionally, beginning in the South and proceeding to the North and the West. The starting point is Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, and the third stop is in Memphis, Tennessee — 88 miles to the northwest — where he grew up and spent much of his adult life.
In tracing the history of Elvis' life and times — the archeology of Elvis if you will — one finds that the passage of time has wrought many changes. Some sites — such as those in Tupelo, Mississippi — have gone unchanged, while in other cases, the original building still exists, but it is hardly recognizable.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940161500064
Publisher: AGS BookWorks of American Graphic Systems
Publication date: 12/31/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Bill Yenne is the San Francisco-based author of more than three dozen books, primarily on popular and historical topics. He is also the founder and president of American Graphic Systems, Inc., a San Francisco book production company which has produced over 175 large-format illustrated books since 1981, including a half dozen on Elvis. Among these was the critically acclaimed I Am Elvis: A Guide to Elvis Impersonators (Simon & Schuster), which was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and in The New York Times (twice in one week). The Baltimore Sun called I Am Elvis: A Guide to Elvis Impersonators “Perhaps the most important Elvis Presley book of the hundreds already published.” Among the other important Elvis titles produced by Yenne and his team was the classic Elvis cookbook Are You Hungry Tonight?: Elvis’ Favorite Recipes (Random House). Visit him at www.BillYenne.com.
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