The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
“The Third Coast” is a travelogue about a car trip around the Great Lakes. It’s personal and engaging, with stories about people McClelland met along the way. It isn’t as deep as a William Least Heat-Moon book, rather it’s more episodic and “newspaperish”. While it’s very good, I do wish it were longer and that he had written more about the trip itself and about the driving and places in between the subjects he focuses on.
I especially liked the way he captured the feel of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which may be the most franchise and chain free area left in the United States.
