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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
Contributor(s): Mack, Doug (Author)
ISBN: 0393355616     ISBN-13: 9780393355611
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | United States - General
- History | World - General
Dewey: 909.097
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.7" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Everyone knows that America is 50 states and... some other stuff. The U.S. territories--American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands--and their 4 million people are little known and often forgotten, so Doug Mack set out on a 30,000-mile journey to learn about them. How did they come to be part of the United States? What are they like today? And why aren't they states? Deeply researched and richly reported, The Not-Quite States of America is an entertaining and unprecedented account of the territories' crucial yet overlooked place in the American story.

Contributor Bio(s): Mack, Doug: - Doug Mack is the author of Europe on Five Wrong Turns a Day and has written for Travel + Leisure, National Geographic Traveler, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Minneapolis.