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America's oddest landmarks / by Sarah Machajewski.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Weird America!Publisher: New York, NY : Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781482440256
  • 1482440253
  • 9781482440232
  • 1482440237
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Weird from coast to coast -- Greetings from "Blucifer" -- Racetrack mythology -- A whale on Route 66 -- Cadillac Ranch -- A monument of cars -- The world's largest... -- Nature's weird wonders -- Honoring our presidents -- Big, big animals -- Out-of-body oddities -- A shared experience.
Summary: "Mount Rushmore. The Statue of Liberty. The Grand Canyon. What do these places have in common? They're American landmarks. Landmarks are structures, objects, or features of unusual interest. They're easy to recognize, and people love to visit them." -- Jacket.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 917.304 M149 Available 33111008399608
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The American landscape is dotted with sites important to our nation's history. This book is not about those landmarks, but those that are truly odd and unusual. Most readers know about Stonehenge in Europe, but what about Carhenge in Alliance, Nebraska? Amazing photographs put readers up close and personal with incredibly odd feats of engineering, such as the world's largest beagle and the world's largest ball of twine. Engaging material straight from the wackiest interstate billboards fill the pages of this wild and wonderful book.

Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.

Weird from coast to coast -- Greetings from "Blucifer" -- Racetrack mythology -- A whale on Route 66 -- Cadillac Ranch -- A monument of cars -- The world's largest... -- Nature's weird wonders -- Honoring our presidents -- Big, big animals -- Out-of-body oddities -- A shared experience.

"Mount Rushmore. The Statue of Liberty. The Grand Canyon. What do these places have in common? They're American landmarks. Landmarks are structures, objects, or features of unusual interest. They're easy to recognize, and people love to visit them." -- Jacket.

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