DETROIT
A field guide to Detroit: square pizza and jazz clubs, boxers and fillmakers, art history and Motown lore.
Inside Wildsam Detroit, you'll find city stories from indelible voices, past and present; illustrated maps to soaring architecture, Coney institutions and urban farms; interviews with oil painters, soul singers and newspaper writers; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Detroit experiences and trusted travel essentials.
"Even in decades of highs and lows, Detroit has never lost its intertwined spirit of optimism and grit."
145 pages, printed in the U.S.A.
Back-pocket size, 4 x 6.5 inches
Featuring more than a dozen local voices
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