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How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass
9781948742313
Regular price $20.00 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The definitive insider’s guide to living in one of America’s most talked-about and least understood cities.
With a wry sense of humor, Detroit native Aaron Foley walks you through the most difficult questions about the Motor City, offering seven simple rules for making it there. Perfect for coastal transplants, wary suburbanites, unwitting gentrifiers, or start-up disruptors, this recently updated guidebook offers insight and advice on everything from the glories of Vernors ginger ale to rehabbing a house to not sounding like an uninformed racist. In twenty short chapters, Foley walks you through:
• How Detroiters do business
• The unofficial guide to enjoying Faygo
• How to be gay in Detroit
• How to raise a Detroit kid
• How to party in Detroit
• And more.
Both hilarious and insightful, this no-frills look at Motown is written for those who live there but also, as Vanity Fair put it, “for anyone participating in contemporary global urbanization who would like to avoid behaving like a subjugating dick.”
Detroit's Belle Isle
9780738523156
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Find out how Detroit's Belle Isle withstood the test of time and became a haven where cultures came together to relax, celebrate and play.
One of the most unique urban parks in the world, Belle Isle has long been a source of civic pride in Detroit. In 1879, just as its population, land area, and industry were flourishing, the city of Detroit purchased this 700-acre island for use as a park. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was soon commissioned to transform the island into an idyllic retreat from the industrial city. This book uses remarkable images drawn from the Walter P. Reuther Library to document Belle Isle's distinctive history throughout the city's periods of accomplishment, economic flux, and social turmoil.
Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan
9781596299429
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%
From the arrival of the first steamship to Lake Michigan in 1821 through the turbulent booms and busts of more than 130 years, passenger steamers of this bygone era provided an essential link for immigrants, excursionists, businesspeople and leisure travelers. On offer were dining, dancing, day trips and luxurious shipboard settings, but mishaps like storms, fires and shipwrecks were a persistent danger to passengers and crew alike. Through fascinating tales and splendid images, Lost Passenger Steamships of Lake Michigan presents the romantic and sometimes dangerous story of a vanished industry that once connected communities all long Lake Michigan's shores.
